The Wateree messenger. (Camden, S.C.) 1884-1942, October 25, 1927, Image 2
THE WATEREE MESSENGER
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Tuesday, October 25, 1927
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"MAUDLIN SYMPATHIZERS"
Last week we asked The Chronici
enlighten us upon a comment .
ide directed against 'welfare .vork
and it has been good enough i
plain by saying: "By its use of th
rm "welfare workers" in last week'
ain-gang story The Chronicle re
rred to any man or r.et of me.
lose efforts have been directed \x>
ard alleviating the pain ami em
?rrasment of convicted . -.-imina.
rving time in Kershaw county pris
l camps or in prisons outside th(
nits of this county."
It evident that we regard ;hv
eatment of prisoners from a differ
it viewpoint from that of the Chron
le. It is entitled to its opinion an
e may be entitled to our opinion,
ong this line we will have no con
oversy. But we know of no "ban<
maudlin sympathizers" who min
ter to the prisoners, but we do knov
lat some of the best people of this
ounty have shown kindness to them
number of ladies being included ii
he number, and we ourselves hav;
hown kindness to them.
The an in prison assumes several 1
ifferent attitudes. He knows thai I
ke is an innocent man; or he in::,
enow that he is guilty ami suffering
ustly; or he may feel that society i?
jairtly to blame for his downfall, yet
it the same timo he feels that chi
punishfnent he is getting is in part
it least just. But how about the at
titude of the man on the outside?
Should he ever lose sight of the fact
that the prisoner is a human being ?
And if it is possible to treat him in
such a way as to bring about a re
formation, should it not be done?
We asked a gentlemen of wide ex
perience in dealing with various types
01 men, how a criminal should be
treated. He promptly replied with
jfcindneis and the least possible bit of
humiliation. Ho went on to explain
the value of kindness, and we feel
lure that it is true that personal con
tact in a kindly spirit means much in
wringing the wrong-doer to a realiza
tion of his condition, and inspiring in
iim a new hope, a new vision, and a
Jetermination to redeem himself and
h make a man worth while of him
lelf.
i One of our distinguished circuit
)idge."s, who has had many years ex
wrience on the bench, is quoted as
laying: "That it is not the severity
?f the punishment as the certainty of
mnishment that is the greatest de
;?rrent to crime."
If, forsooth, some men and women
of good intention* have shown an in
terest in the prisoners, some of whom
are young men far away from their
romes and loved ones, and who have
anxious mothers-broken hearted
mothers?back at home, although
these young fellows brought their
trouble upon themselves and may
have fallen into the very defpths of
sin, should those who are trying to
bring them to a realization of their
guilt of sin and to get them to load
clean lives, be stigmatized a "band
of maudlin sympathizers?" We have
no hesitancy in being placed in the
Class of welfare workers. We do not
condone crime in anyone, but we are
(ready to make an honest effort to
help those who have gone astray to
turn their backs on wrong and lead
clean lives.
The Friend of sinners, the lowly
Nazarene, outlined this particular
form of work.
"I was in prison, and ye came unto
me."
"When saw we thee sick or in
prison ami came unto thee?"
Verily I say unto you, inasmuch
ye have done it unto one of the
ItMt of these my brethren ye have
done it unto me."
AMERICAN COMMODITY HAS IN
TRANATIONAL ROMANCE
It in nothing new for an American
invention or product to be given
world-acclaim ami line. It is becom
ing tho usual thing. A recent issue
oi the "Caterpillar Magazine" shows,
In a series of photographs, the story
of one of our industrial romances
that of the tractor.
The tvack-type tractor's efficiniecy
for any kind of "rough-and-ready"
first came to the world's attention
during the w?r, when it hauled guns j
through mml and pver precipitous I
mountains, ami swept, in the role of ,
* tank ? ft "Caterpillar" with a tin
tutt ? across trenches and ontagle
ments. That was its war work. And (
then, back from the war, with hat aim!
pout off, )t went to work ami i.a 1 1
roven invaluable in thne of ppace.
Many of the boys who" a few years a
jo were guiding a slu?h-spatter>d,
ieath-dealing tank through the oat
.lefields of France are today ? lire.'i.
ng its peaceful brother while it
guilds roads through once-impassaole.
crritory, or move tons of machin
ery to a new power plant or factory,
jv accomplishes hundreds of other
hard tasks.
The modern farmer in this country
ias learned the value of the tractor,
is one of the greatest of progressive
agricultural steps, comparable \o ihe
nvention of the cotton and com
bined harvester. And .11 over he
vorld this strictly American product
ias been received with the same on
husiasm and for a multitude of uses,
it cultivates the rice-fields of Japan,
.iorks on sugar-land in British Ciui
ina, builds roads in Uruguay, makes
dawaii clears acres of cactus-covered
and, once useless, to make way 'or
tineapple planting.
The "Caterpillar" tractor is an A^"
.lerican commodity with a ?vorl-J
tory and an international romance.
"TRAVELING ON"
The esteemed Wateree Messenger
icgan the forty-fourth year of its
?ventful life with the publication of
t: last week's issue. We felicitate
t upon its achievement that it has
never missed an issue for any causc
n all that time. That is no email
Accomplishment in itself. Also. J: en
las not been a change of ownership
is management^ during the long term
if years of its operation. Our im
.ression is, that in these two parli
ulars, The Messenger holds the rec
ord in the State.
In its long life the paper has n ot
i messenger of service, of which
.here may be two kir.:ls, evil ir:'
*ood. But those who know Charlie
Jirehmore, know also his clean life
lis Integrity of purpose, his energy
nd ability to serve; and those who
?:;ve been the readers of his , apev
i'he Messenger, know too that it ha
>orne the impress all through its life
if the characteristics we have enum
erated which he embodies. The pa
er has been clean, serviceable an\!
'epjendable. These are enough to ac
ount it safe and worth while, airi
.hat is safe and worth while merit
he very best of suppoi I.
The Era wishes for Thy Messenger
/et many more years of honorable
life and useful service, and express
es the hope that the increased age
may also bring increased good result?
of every sort to its patrons and to
its presiding geniuif, the editor him
-elf. ? Kemhaw Era.
I
Wc greatly appreciate the above ,
very complimentary words :'rom our
good friend, Editor Hamel of the Ker
shaw Era. Nothing finer could have
been said of The Messenger und our
selves, and we *an only hope chat wc
in some degree at least merit what
has so graciously been said of us.
Our neighbor's kind words of us is
a real inspiration and will serve to
quicken our efforts to render the
very best service of which we are
capable. We have always believed
that a newspaper should have a char
acter?in fact that it actually , has a
character, and we have at all times
desired to give to The Messenger a
character worth while" that it might
at all times be looked upon and read
with a degree of satisfaction, that
what it's columns contain are abso
lutely dependable. Thank you, Friend
Hamel, for your very generous words
of commendation.
COUNTY PAIR
Wo wish the management of our
county fair, which will open Novem
ber 2n<l, and continue through the
5th, every possible success. These
toccasions are the means of brinpfinK
|t!'.e people together, seeing what their
jresf>ective achievements on the farm,
'tfftrden and housejxpld are, and re
newing acquaintances and making
jtiew friends--f riends that you can
Approach with confidence, nnd whose
! presence will inspire you bo do your
! host. And old, friend# whom you
{meet on such occasions, how you can
j enjoy, the wa/rm Krasp of the hand.
] For the past few yearR our county
j fairs have been a marked success
I from every standpoint. The attend
ance was fine, the oxhihlts just splen
did and the financial end entirely sat
isfactory. We presume the premium
(list Is fully up to what it has heen
Ir the past, few years--in fact pos
sibly better. The amusement feat
ure will not be overlooked. Just take
the week off and attend the county
fair. Some communities have made
a (freat success of the eounty faV,
because they have been well man
apred. Such applies to the Kershaw
county fair. Take a week off and
visit the fair for eadh day if p4-.sib1e i
and If you cannot make It for each '
day, then as many as possible. You 1
will enjoy seeing the exhibita, meet- j
in* your friends and learniner Rome- '
thfof? worth while. >1
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
October 3 J, 1927
AMOS DENOUNCES SIN
LtMNim Text ? Amos 2:4-12
Thff losson committee have chosen
llhis 'portion of Scripture as a temp
erance lesson. We fail to discover
anything in the passage concerning
the sin of intemperance. The last
verse speaks of some having given
wine to the Nazarites, who had for
a certain period taken a vow not to
touch the' fruit of the vine (Num.6:
2-4). The passage, however, con
tains much in the way of warning
that is timely for the day in which
we live.
Amos, the simple herdsman, of
whose call us a prophet we learned
last Sunday, though a citizen of the
kingdom of Juxlah, went, under a
divine impulse, into the adjoining
kingdom of Israel. At Bethel, the
chief seat of calf worship, he uttered
the prophecies of Israel's downfall
ecorded in chis book.
It will be noticed that Amos's for
mer pursuits furnished him much of
the imagery of his jrrophecies. lie
alludes to the height of the cedars,
the strength of oaks, the snaring of
bird's, the roaring of lions, the lifting
ii corn, the treading of grapes, TKp
constellations of the heavens. All
,hese natural objects which had been
familiar to him <us ho tended sheep
by day and night, furnished him il
lustrations.
Although commissioned especially
to rebuke the sins of Israel, the first
and* second chapters record his denun
ciations of six other powers just out
side of Jud&h and Israel. Chapter 2
continues the scries of judgments pro
nounced on these outside nations, con
cluding with Moab, the last outside
ol the chosen people. With verse 4
he proceeds to tell the doom of Judah
and Israel.
On ihe surface it may seem that
Amos makes too much of mere moral
ity. It should be remembered \hat
Amos was called to protest against
definite sins and errors, and to show
Ihe people that sacrifices and incense
meant nothing whatever to Jehovah
no long as they utterly disregarded
.d' His standards of righteousness.
I The central note of Amos's proph
ecy reminds one of the definition of
pure religion given by the Apostle
James: "Pure religion and undefiled
before God and the Father is this,
To visit the fatherless and widows in
their affliction, and to keep himself
unspotted from the world."
Addressing himself to Judah (v. 4),
Amos declares that for four trans
gression; their punishment shall not
be turned away. They have "de
spised the law of the Lord." The na
tion that has had the Scriptures and
then turns its back upon them, can
not escape the judgments of God.
Other nations may sin without light
and may suffer much for violating
the dictates of conscience alone, but
woe to the people Vvho have known
the written revelation of His will, who
have had proofs that He is a covenant
keeping God, and who then forsakes
i; for the guess work of men and the
false gods manufactured by the hu
man mind.
They had "not kort His command
ments, and their lies caused them to
err." This is the further indictment
ot Amos upon Judah. The world to
day is full of religious liars. New
cults are born every day, all profes
sing to be of God and all contradict
ing one another; yet the people love
to swallow their false teachings, nev
er pausing to consider that God has
made no one dependent, upon any in
dividual for the correct interpretation
of His truth. Ail can come to the
pure stream, His Word, and find it
for themselves.
The people preferred in those days
Haal-peor, Haalim and Ashtaroth to
the message of the true God, as thous
ands in our day run after the teach
Aigs of cult .leaders, who make their
writings essential to the understand
ing of the way of life. It is just as
true today as in the days of Amos that
people love to be deceived by lies; but
no amount of sincerity or belief In
what is -false can save one from the
consequences.
"I will send ft fire upon Judah," said
the Ix>rd, "ami it shall devour the
places of Jerusalem" (v. IV.) This
prediction, repeated by Jeremiah (17
27), was literally fulfilled (2 Kings.
2f>:9).
The charge against Israel follows.
The first indictment is that they
"sold the rightcofls for silver, awl ihe
poor fo>r a pair of shoes" (v. fl). They
were notorious for the corrupt admin
istration of justice, and for cruelty
and oppression. They would pervert
justice for the most paltry recom
pense.
Are not the<<e cflnditionH which fol
low in the wake of apontwiy? i
Throughout our laml today, the com- j
ptjaint in sroinif (up thwt it \n next to
iniponniblc to obtain justice. Es
pecially in thin true in the cm? of the
poor man. The \vitholdin:r of v'nc
Word of God from the children of our
schools, t1" substitution of evolution
ary and atheistics teachings 111
schools, colleges ami even churches, is
bound to result in a crop of Bolshe
vists everyone of whom is a law un
to himself and set upon getting what j
he desires at any price.
Not only does injustice walk hand
in hand with apostasy, but as Amos
d<-clared to Israel, grossest sext i _m
purity may be expected. " A .in an 1
his father will go in unt ?he same
"'aid" (v. 7K 'J h ; .. ' u>
themselves ouYv.i ?... > .It
pledge by the altar."
Some are indeed shocked to find
such suggestive sentences in the Bi
ble, and these are the very people who
close their eyes to the licentious con
ditions that exist in our own day to an
alarming degree. Amos made Isrre".
face these conditions, and told then
plainly, what would happen if the>
were not corrected.
l he farther the people of our natioi
?et from the teachings of personal
puiTry"^ taught by the Word of Got.
,he looser become their views regard
ng sex matters. In our day sonu
ministers are pleading for church re
.?ognition of "free love" relationships.
Scientific devices are provideji, .?up
-osedly to make it safe for the younji
io violate the laws of purity. Those
who have been careful students ot
tuman history, well know that there
is no escaping the terrible penalties
ironounced by the Word of God upon
the violation of the laws of purity.
Society is absolutely certain to reap
in awful harvest from the unbunded
jromiscuous lust that exists today.
In Amos's day these conditions went
so far as to profane the very house
of God, and it is not a scandal to the
:hurch today that leaders of the
jhurch can be found who plead for the
lowering of the standards of mar
ria ge?
"Remember", said Amos, how God
?'destroyed the Amorite, whose height
was like the height of cedars, who
vas as strong as the oaks. Yet He de
stroyed his fruit from above and his
.'oots from beneath" (v. 9). And let
is consider that the great empires of
the j>ost which sunk into oblivion,
wont down by the same path of apos
tesy, injustice and moral leprosy
which thousands of people today are
traveling.
Amos enumerates in vs. 10-11 the
signal favors conferred upon Israel.
The mercies our nation has received
from God are the heaviest aggrava
tions of the sins that are now being
tolerated. What a requital for all
His favors! What shame upon us
for not rendering to Him according
io the plain teachings of His Word!
Can we heap such contempt upon His
Word and His divine Son and chink
long to escape nationa j.unw.i; i ... .
The closing verse of the lesson
charges that some had sunk so low r
even to seduce into a violation of their
religious vows, some who were sin
cerely seeking to separate themseive
unto God. When men go so 'ar v
to try to debauch Christian people
and draw them off from their serious
ness in devotion, they are fast 'iilin
up the measure of their iniquities.
N<r wonder such a people said to \
the prophets: "Prophesy not" (v. l'J
Many today are doing everything
within their power to silence the
\oices of true ministers or io get
them to tone down the (Jospel to fit
in with modern conceptions. It is
ha .1 enough for a man who cannot
bear faithful preaching, but it will be
worse for the man who tries to sup
press it.
PROBLEMS OF PRESIDENCY
Within nine months the choivo ' ?
ir, occupant for the White House will
1 >e narrowed to two men and 30,000
,)00 voters will choose a leader and
spokesman for four yean*.
Economy and prosperity are tail
of as the achievement* of the i>t
< nt edministratior,. with i K<"ii
lolicy to let the people alone to work j
out their own salvation.
Our Country has also refrained
from mixing up with other countries.
Creditor revenues resulted from low
er tax rates. Anti-corporation sent
iment and radicalism in any form
1 ave constantly declined.
Industries and payrolls are consid
ered more important than partisan
ship, and poeple generally prefer a
candidate who will give us soundness
in judgment and firmness in control.
(J-eorge Remus, who recently mur
dered his wife in Cleveland, Ohio,
will enter the customary plea in such '
?ases--insAnity. Rev. W. T. Jordan, j
the Methodist minister convict*'.! .*[
bigamy in Charlotte recently, is* rap I
jtalixlng upon his conviction by writ- '
ing a book while he is trying to es
cape the penitentiary on: "From the
Pulpit to Prison." Douhtlcft* many
of bh? morhi<l will want to raa<l tho
hook. And so it sroos with criminals
of the higher clans, whllo; ofton it in
tha cam that noma obscure fellow
without friend* and without money
(f eU lonjc terms.
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Cershaw County will, on the first
londay in November, 1027, (being
November 7th) during the legal
i urs of sale, before. ?,??? Court House
oor in the City of Camden, offer to
he highest binder for cash the Poor
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