The Wateree messenger. (Camden, S.C.) 1884-1942, April 26, 1932, Image 2
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Tuesday, April 26, 1982
WHY NOT A GRANDMOTHERS
DAY
Sunday, May 8th, wjll be Mother's
Day. It is a pleasing, sentimental^
custom to set apart one especial day
for the particular remembrance oi
everybody'? mother. Very few of us
are so unsentimenal as not too have
tender and pleasant recollections of
Childhood days, in which mother was
everything to us. She stood between
the child and all that would harm it.
She did not have to say, and probably
never stopped to realize, that she
wouM gladly give her own life, ii
necessary, to protect the life of her
child. We have known of men and
women whose lives have been wreck
ed by an excess of maternal devotion,
by the reluctance of their mpfrhers to
let., them live their own lives, free
ftom parental interference. But even
those look back to their infancy witih
a tender devotion to the figure that
stood between itlhemselves and harm.
We should like to see somebody,
however, start a "Grandmother's Day.
It is our observation thf.t grandmoth
ers have had abOait as much to do
with shaping the lives of most of us
as our mothers had. A good many
mothers would have made a much
poorer job of bringing up their child
ren if there hadn't been a grandmoth
er or two in the background, to give
them the benefit of her wisdom gain
etf from the experience of raising a
family to maturity.
We hope that everybody who reads
this will remember his or her mother
with some appropriate gift, however
small, on Mother's Day, but let's not
forget grandma.
THERE IS NOTHING NEW UNDER
THE SUN
We think we live in a complicated i
age, but more than three hundred',
year b ago everything} wa9 just as
topsy-turvy as it is today. Robert
Burton, who was born in 1576, pub
lished a famous 'book called "The
Anatomy of Melancholy" in 1G21. And
three hundred and eleven years ago
hie wrote in that book a number of
paragraphs which have a, very famil-i
iar sound in this year of grace, 1932. |
Herp are siome of them:
'<New news every day. Those or
dinary rumors of war, plaguesi, fires,
.inundations, thefts, murders, mas
sacres, meteors, comet, spectrums,
prodigies, apparitions, shipwrecks. A
vast confusion of vows*, wishes, act
ions, edicts, petitions, lawsuita, pleas,
laws, proclamations , complaints,
grievances. Then come tidings oi
weddings, entertainments^ embassies,
trophies, siports, plays, treasons, rob
beries, enormou villanies of all kinds,
funerals, death of princes, new dis
coveries and expeditions.
"Our summon bonum is commodity, |
and the goddess we adore. Dea
Moneta, Queen Money.
"So many professed Christians, yet
so few imitators of Christ; so much
talk of religion, so much science, yet
so little conscience.
'To see so many lawyers, yet so
little justice; so many laws, yot nev
dr more disorders. lawyers get more
to hold their peace than we to say our
very best.
"New books every day, pamphlets,
stories, whole catalogues* of volumes
of all sort?, new paradoxes, schismns,
heresies, controversies in philosophy,
religion, etc."
Only the very younp\ or the very
inexperienced think that there is any
material change in human nature and
its manifestations from century to
century.
Never regret your deficiencies;
take them as invitations.
Success is a magnificent street to
loaf on.
TOMORROW
It is sometimes my sad fortune to
have to deliver an after-dinner speech.
Few experiences are more depress
ing.
One site up at a high table like a
specimen at the zco. One waits with
increasing discomfort whiCe the toa*-t
master. works slowly down the line,
and tries to look appreciative as the
other speakers unfold their solutions
of wortfd problems with a sprinkling
of s(tale jests.
Only now and then there is a bit
of compensation. The other night,
for instnce, I found myself beside
Strickland Gilli'land. He ate sparing
ly, and when I ramarked'on it, he
said: "I always have to feel well to
morrow. If yoi* live today so that
you will foel all right tomorrow you
don't get into much trouble.'
That made me think that you can
estimate men according to their at
titude toward tomorrow.
How many tomorrows can tihey
see? How much are they willing to
sacifice for tomorrow? How much
do they dare to trust?
A day laborer can see only a half
dozen tomorrows. He must be paid
every week. An entrepreneur may
cheerfully invesrt. half a life-time in
a new business from which not he but
his children wiU profit. '
Artiste and writeiiv have been
known to disregard entirely tne near
tomorrow s, pinning their faith on the
fairer and more enduring verdict of
posterity.
The prophet, of Course, look^ farth
est of all. Stephen, on his way t<
death, ciied: "Beho'.d I see tha haav
ens open-ad." Jesus, about to ba cruc
ified, assured His disc', pies: "I have
overcome the world."
It strikes me that what we need
these days i9 the h^ bit of taking r.
lit.tle longer look, env'saging a fe<v
more tomorrows.
Some of us act cr if thi? r-r-?nl
distress were the fiict test of the
world's endurance that has ever come.
We are afr?id that if it is n"
straightened out immediately jefv iTT~
zation will parish. /
It is not so much a test of the world
or of civilization, as it is a te.?t of us.
It is like the war. Feme cf us lost
couiage, and said: "It will never
end," and took thought only of them
selves. Others can new l.ook back
with satisfaction on the record they
made then.
Today we are making another i*e
cord on which we must look back.
Back from some future and better
tomorrow.
April 28, 1891
Mr. James B. Wallace, one of Cam
den's popular yoUng men, was united
in matrimony to Miss Kate Clifton, of
Mariana, Fla., on the 21st inst. Mr.
W. C. Clifton ^father of the bride, was
formerly a citizen of Camden.
Miss Polly McDonald, an eldei-ly
maiden lady, died at the residence of
Mr. L. B. McRherson, on the 20th
inst.
Mrs. Neal Ray, after a linfvring
illness quietly passed away last Sat
urday morning.
The Camden .Horticultural Society
will give a floral exhibition on the
5th of May at the Opera House.
DetKalb Lodge No.41, Knights of
Fythiia's) was instituted in Camden
last Thursday night.
Rev. W. W. Mills will deliver a tem
perance sermon at the Methodist
church next Sunday.
Epfaraim Gardner shot and pain
fully wounded Wils Williams on Capt.
W. A. Ancrum's place in Southern
Kershaw.
Goo. W. Catoe fatally shot in a dif
ficulty with G. A. and Wim. Melton.
Mr. S. B. Latham has begun the
work of tearing down the frame build
ing next south of the Latham house
preparatory to building a brick stable.
A party of railroad surveyoi's are
surveying the line of the proposed
railway from Bishopville through
Buffalo township in this county.
April 30, 1912
Infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.
C. Seagle buried in the Camden cem
etery.
Dr. S. M. McCaskill moves into his
pew home on corner of Fair and Haile
Streets.
Mr. Eiben J. McLeod and Miss Les
lie Arthur married at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Zemp.
Civic. League will hold May Festi
val on Monument Square on Friday,
May 3rd.
Miss Mary Douj^las Johnson and
Mr. Dan Milton Jones married April
30th at the home of the bride's paK
ontfi, Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Johnson.
Democratic clubs' throughout the
County hold annual meeting.
OP COURSE MR. DAWKS IS
AGAINST THE BONUS
Charges G. Dawes does not believe
What the two-<bllion dollar .sauce for
the railroa<ls and corporate interests
of America should ever be construed
as sauce for 1the ex-service men of
the country.
He was enthusiastically in favor of
providing funds for the railroads and
the hi* interests (including his own)
and such enterprises as the Emoire
Sitato Huilding, of New York, which
is a financial flop, but he Is bitterly
opposed to further payment on the
governments debt to ttve Wortd War
veterans.
General Dawes speaks as a repre
sentative of the three per rent of A
merica's population who own ninrty
per cent of tihis country s wealth. It
is this same group who have favored
cancellation of war debts so that pri
vate loans co old he collected. Ho i?
in favor of infltvtnon, hut npe-c-ially i
Wants. It confined to a soled group
of investors.
America has set 1 1 <xl the Italian
debt for twenty-three centis on the
dollar, with an interest of one-eighth
of one per cent, which was immedi
ately followed by the Morgan inter
ests. lending Italian enterprises fltyO,
000,000 at seven per cent interest.
()an it not pay its debt to th? ex-sol
diera? General Dawes, incidentally, is
reported to be very close to the Mor
gan banking firm.
Many people in this section recall
that the only noticeable improvement
in business in recent moraf/hs, came on
the heels of government action mak
ing it possible to borrow up to fifty
per cent of their certificates. Most of
the veterans took advantage of the
privilege, paid debts, bought property
and put the money in circulation.
It is natural that General Dawes is
opposed to any payment to veterans.
He is probably a follower of that
school of thought that is opposed to
any assistance noing to t<he masses,
lie was differently disposed when he
hurried home from London to secure
government funds to help tide over
his financial emergency in Chicago.
That was called "thawing out," but
the veterans' assets can stay at zero
insofar as he is concerned.? Ander
son Independent.
In each failure you make you muit
look to see the hand of (rod trying
you out.
We are often cursed -by our suc
cesses.
Limitations are step-ladders.
I threw away a part of life
In folly's ra#?e;
And in life's story bf>ok there is
An empty page.
A young lady who had parked her
car in forbidden land returned two
hours later to see a large, put/ient po
liceman curled up in the front seat
awaiting his prey. Making a swift
decision, she stepped into a taxi, was
taken home and telephoned to the
police department that her car had
been stolen. An h???' later It wfl* re
turned by the aame traffic policeman
looking not tfhe leawt baffled, but, an
the contrary, quite proud of hi# alert
Doesn't It Make You Dizzy?
By Albert T. Raid
Drifting
Thoughts
"They who have least boast most.
Longest tongues accompany weak
est minds.
Ignorance is always a proclaimer of
knowledge.
Wisdom professes but one thing:
that is its ignorance.
They waste most who are most in
debt.
He can do most, to hear him talk,
who does least.
He who never tries a hard tihing
says it Is easy.
He can tell you muc.h about it whro
knows nothing about it.
They can always advise you what
to do who have never experienced
your difficulty.
Pretense is the largest mountain
in the world.
Each man is registered by death,
and carries his number.
Every palace has been or will be a
mausoleum for a night or two.
Wihat men are or are not, what men
have or have not makes no difference
with death. A man is nothing but a
man in death's viewpoint.
Death has no schedule, no office,
no loafing place.
Death causes the sore of love which
only it can heal.
Each must do his final act, say his
last word and lose his final los?.
Live knowing you must die, and
you will die knowing you have lived.
Dive kindly so that death may treat
you kindly.
International Sunday School
Lesson.
International Sunday School I.c.^:n
for May 1.
ISAAC AND HIS WELLS
Genesis 26:12-25
Rev. Samuel D. Price, D. D.
Isaac, the son of Abraham and fa
ther of Jacob, is just an average man
man in comparison. There is, howev
er, muah that is interesting in this
patriarch. He was the son of promise
and was born when Abram was- close
to the century mark. The tragic event
in his life is when he was about to be
offered as a sacrifice by the father
on Mount Moriali in Jerusalem, which
later became the site of the Temple,
Genesis 23:3-14. A fine love story is
developed wheal a proxy is sent back
to the old country to pet a wife for
Isaac. Rebekah is the fair maid who
was found by he side of the well. It
is interesting to note that likeness
to tine love of Isaac am* Rebekah is
mentioned in the marriage service of
today. - ; " IV
Great herds of cattle and flocks of
sheep were Uie possession of this pro
genitor of the Hebrw race. These an
imals needed water and pi o-'.onged
strife developed over this with th2
Philistines who were the earlier in
habitants of the land. Abraham had
dug numerous wel>s in his day but
the Philistines, out c * r.ir. o c t : J.ri
ne&s filled up tese sources of water'
supply. Thereby they endangered their
own cattle. Now read through the
lesson texit and see how Isaac depart
ed from Abimelech rather than create
trouble by insisting on his rights at
the water supplies. Then, in Uirn,
three wells were dug as he migrated
but in two cases the watchful enemy
managed to fill up the holes. A name
is given to each well wihich describes
the trousble that took place there. Fi
nally a well was dug at Rehoboth
and the gentle patience of Isaac was
rewarded for trouble ceased ait that
point. The Golden Text is rich in its
meaning and declares: "A soft an
swer turneth away wratlh; but a grie
vious word sitirreth up anger," Pro
verbs 15:1.
So live tihat you may leave some
thing living nobly for you after death
has called yo<ur name.
When you die, die living and climb
ing.
;
The man who finds nothing to do will
find something to undo.
The working man always has God
to call upon.
An unbridled tongue gives birth to
many regrets.
By being silent an ignorant man
may appear wise.
When men talk most they thir.k
least.
Expressing one's self sometime*
means betraying one's s<?lf.
He who says least is least lie-.l a
bout.
Listen to him who speaks little.
Wlisdom's tongue is never tired.
BUD 'n' BUB
By Ed KRESSY