The Wateree messenger. (Camden, S.C.) 1884-1942, August 02, 1932, Image 2
The Wateree Messenger
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Tuesday, August 2," 1932
THE UPSWING HAS BEGUN
Everywhere we hear speaking
more hopefully than even a month
ago. That mysterious something
which some folks call "public psy
chology" has definitely changed. In
stead of talking "depression" wc
hear business men, workers, banke;
and manufacturers talking of "better
times ahead."
That is not all that is needed tc
put us back on a sound working basi:
but without such a change of menta
attitude we would never have t
change to come back. Faith is af
essential in business as it in in re
ligion. When folks bclitvj tha'
things can be done, they usually fin<
a way to do them; when they do no'
believe that anything they can d<
will do any good, {effort ceases.
What has happened is that faitl
in America and in our American sy
stem is coming back. People are w
longer afraid. And a? fast as tha.
new faith spreads, just so fast wil
economic conditions improve.
There is no lack of money in A
merica; the lack has been in confi
dence in investments. Too many
people were stung by speculativ
schemes in the guise of fYivestments.
to encourage them to put money
they have since accumulated intc
anything but the soundest and most
proved enterprises. But now mone\
is beginning to come out.
We were interested to see th<
report of the savings bank deposit;
in the United States for the past
few years. They have been grow
ing steadily since 192G, until now F>f
million Americans have more than
28 thousand million dollars in thir
form of reserve alone, an average of
more than $500 each! Most of thir
money will not be erf^ily lured into
speculation, but much of it will gc
into new homes, into small business
enterprises, into a thousand other
solid and productive investments a.1
soon as the return of confidence be
comes thoroughly manifest.
DIG THE FLORIDA CANAI.
It seems to us that this is tht
time of all times to begin digging
that deep-water canal across the
neck of the Florida peninsula. While
wc are preparing to build the. St
LiiWicnce deep water-way along oui
northern border at a cost of 258 mil
lion dollars, it looks to us as if we
should not wait to put a lot more
money and men to work in the South
also.
The Florida canal definitely conies
in the class of self-liquidating public
works f?r which the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation is authorized to
lend its $3,800,000,000 of resources.
It will cost, Army enf^neers esti
mate, about $200,000, OOO.TTThat is a
small sum as money is counted in
these days. It will save so much
time and money for ships plying be
tween Gulf ports and the Atlantic
seaboard that it will pay for itself
in tolls in a few ^ears.
The Panama Canal last year, in
spite of defp rested foreign trade,
earned $12,000,000 above the cost of
operation. After paying the interest
on the $125,000,000 of Panama Canal
Bonds, thus left $0,000,000 profit.
Tehre is much more ship traffic be
tween the Gulf of Mexico ports and
those on the Atlantic coast than
there is going through the iPanama
Canal annually. At a much smaller
toll per gross ton, the Florida canal
could earn as much as Panama does.
We understand that application is j
being made to the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation to finance this
enterprise. We hope that it will be
one of the things done speedily.
I'll BET HIGHER TAXES
OH BAHAMA OIL
and Bologna would
?U>W OOWN THESE
POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS,
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BRUCE BARTON
writes of "ffHE MASTER EXECUTIVE
Xv> 04; ut BBiuns Xa.x\a puij n for the heavy burdened who will
oihmiJsuj o; >(oom xi autXjddn^ perienccs of 'The Man Nobody Knows'
?IN LATK AFTERNOON?
It was very late in the afternoon
in Galilee. The dozen men who had
walked all day over the dusty road?
wire hoi and tired. The sight of o
village ?vas ve.; ch-.'erir.g, they
looked down on it from the top of
a little hill. Their leader sent two
members of the party ahead to ar
range for accommodations, while h<
and the others sat down by the road
side to wait.
After a bit the messengers wen
seen returning, and even at a dis
tance it was apparent that something
unpleasant had occurred. Theii
cheeks were flu hed and their voice:
angry. Breathlessly they told it?
the people in the village had refuse*'
to receive them, h..d given them blun<
notice to seek shelter somewhere
else.
The indignation of the messenger?
communicated itself to the others
This back^ woods village refuse tr
entertain their master ? it was un
thinkable. He was a famous public
character. lie had healed sick peo
ple and given freely to the poor. In
the capital city c:owds had followed
him.
"Lord, these people are insuffer
able," one of them cried. "Let us
call down fire from Heaven and
consume them." The others joined
in with enthusiasm. Fire from
Heaven ? that was the idea! Mak<?
them smart for their boorishness!
Show them that they can't affront
us with impunity! Come, Lord, thv
fire ?
There are time when nothing a
man can say is nearly so powerful as
saying nothing. (Every executive
knows that instinctively. To argut
brings him down to the level of
those with whom he argues; silence
convictg them of their folly; they
wish they had not spoken so quickly;
they wonder what he thinks. Th:
lips of Jesus tightened; his fine
features showed the strain of the
preceding weoks. He needsd thai
night's rest, but he said not a word
Quietly he gathered up his garment?
and started on, his outraged com I
panions following. It is easy t? [
inagine his keen disappointment i
Would they never catch- a true vision
of what he was about?
Down the hot road they traile-.
ifter him, awed by hi"- silenc.
vaguely conscious that they hn> i
failed again to measure up. In the i
mind of .Jei?us the t h i ii<r was to< i
small for comment.
"And they went to another village" |
?? * * * (
I
Kightecn hundro.l years later ai ,
important man left the. White lions', i
in Washington for , the War Office j
with a le'.ler from the President tr j
the Secretary of War. In a very I
few minutes he was back in the j
White House again bursting with in- j
dignation. The President looked U] i
in mild surprise. "Did you give the j
message to Stamon?" he ask-.d. 1
"Yes, and he tot e it up," exclaim .u! I
the outra^xl cbtlzen, " an 1 what
is mor.1, sir, ho ,*aid you are a fool?" j
"Diil Stanton call me that?" he
asked. -... "He did, sir, and repeated
it." "Well", said the President with
a dry laugh, "I reckon it nnnt be
true then, because Stanton is gener
ally right."
The angry gentleman waite<l foi
the storm to break, but nothing hap
pened. Abraham Lincoln turner
quietly to his ilesk and went on with
his work.
Next Week: "Boyhood Back
ground."
International Sunday School
Lesson
Rev. Charles E. Dunn^D.D.
Rev. Charles E. Dunn, D.D., New
York, is now preparing the regular
weekly International Sunday School
lesson* for this- newspaper. Ho
takes up the work where the late
Samuel D. Price, D.D., left off.
.Rev. Dunn is a graduate of Prince
ton University, with highest honors
in Philosophy, and Phi Beta Kappa
standing. He was ordained to the
Christian ministry in 1918, by the
Presbytery of Brooklyn.,
SUNDAY SCHOOL LKSSON
By Rev. Charles H. Dunn, I) I)
Lesson for August 7:
The Ten Commandments. 1. Kxodua
20: M 1
The Ten Commandments, hammnr
ed by Moses into table8 of stone at
M<t. Sinai, according to the familiar
narntive of Exodus, comprise thr
basic moral lawv of the Hebrew peo
ple, and of Christian civilization.
Our lesson deals with the first four
of th??e pithy laws, which outline
man's fundamental obligations to
God. The remaining s.ix laws in the
Decalogue treat of man's duty to
his fidlows.
Note that the first Commandment,
"Thou shall have no other gods l>e
fore me," does not deny the existence
of many duties. It was a long time
bp for* the Hebrews arrived at that
sublime fconvietion of the unknown
prophet of the exile that there is one
God only, "the ^Jod of the whole
"arfch." What the Commandment
mvuiH is that the Ood of Israel must
be given the (preference over rival
gods. Today it might l>e paraphrased
to read, "Thou shalt have sit least
one Odd." For our danger is not that,
We are tempted to worship many
gods, but to repudiate God and wor
ship together.
The .Second Commandment, a
sweeping? prohibition of tho carving
of idols, was necessary in Moses' day.
when the making of images was car
ried to excess. For our own time,
however, it is far too drastic. We art
lovers of a>t, and ay. preciato its im
mense contribution to the religious
impulse. For us the Commandment
means a protest not against artistic
1 symbols of God, but against gods
I purely man-made, constructed after
our own pattern: Our God is pure
j Spirit, mightier and grander than
j any picture, mental or material, we
: may draw of Him.
The Third Commandment protects
I the sanctity of oaths. In this day of
| slipshod talk, falsehood and perjury,
' we need to take it much to begirt. As
Jesus insisted, our Yea should be pre
cisely Yea, and our Nay exactly Nay.
It is also a protest against profanity
an inevitable sign of feeble vocabu
lary and impoverished thinking.
The Fourth Commandment was
never more n-eded. The trend of our
day is to make Sunday n holiday ra
ther than a holy day. Now Sunday
presents a siplendid opportunity for
rest, worship, the home life, and the
personal life. Arr we not in danger
of losing these values through our
lust for pleasure and speed on the
I/ord'? Day?
ACCOMl'TlSIIINf; Til K
I M I'OSSI HMO
I ty Rev. I. Keels, I'astor Presbyterian
Church, IJet'hune.
Sometimes it seems that we art
surr<>undvd by rang?? after range o(
i nsu r m :mim table mountains --'moun
tains of problems, doubts*, dangers,
difficulties, discouragements, defeats.
I'robh'.ny confront us to day that cm
not be solved by man alone. What
shall we do? We must accomplish
the impossible.
The prevention of su:n an accom
plishment is unbelief.
Unbelief ij revented the disciples of
Christ from accomplishing tho im
possible. A man brought his lunatic
son to the disciples. Thty could not
cure him. Christ came down from
the mountain wh.'ie He had been
transfigured and spoke these words
to the people of that day when he
asked to heal the demon possessed
one.
"() faithless and perverse generat
ion, how lr?ng shall I be with you?
how long shall I suffer you?"
He then healed the sick one.
The disciples asked Christ apart
why could they not cast, him out.
"Because of your little faith,"
Christ replied.
Unbelief will prevent men to day
from accomplishing the j
x ? ?, &W$im
THE SPEED CONTEST * ?? Uy Albert T. Re id
SANDERS,
REPUBLICAN CHAMP.
? FARLEY.
DEMOCRATIC CHAMP.
Look at the ipeople of the world ?
a faithless and perverse generation ?
a people who have forgotten God,
who do not serve or worship Him. i
And we still have with us the demon
possessed sons of men. The lack of
faith in Christ is the Son of God is
pa ra lysis.
The condition for such an accom
plishment is faith. Faith is trust in
God and dependence upon Him and
His Son Jesus Christ.
Our lives may be illustrations of
such an accomplishment if we only
believe on Christ. With a little faith
in the living Christ we may accom
plish tlie impossible.
"If ye have faith as a grain of
mustard seed, ye shall say unto this
mountain, Remove hence to yond?i
,pJ^ce; and it shall remove; and noth
ing shall be impossible to you.''
(Matthew 17:20)
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AUGUST 4, 1891.
Capt. \V. Clyburn, Clerk of Court,
files mortgage executed by tlvo C:ipe
Fear and Cincinnati Railway Co. to
Massachusetts Loan and Trust Co.
for $9,000,000.
Engineer Brissenrfen an J Fitvsnan
Brown are instantly killed in wreck
on !'-juth Carolina Railway near
Ridgeville.
Contractor Gleen begins erection of
new store for Mr. W. E. Johnson
next north of Dr. F. M. Zemp's Drug
Store.
Jim Campbell, confined in county
jail attempts suicide.
Mr. W. IX Trantham delivers an
address on "Education" to several
h r *? * i ? 1 p?"pl.> at picnic at Flint
Hill chuicti.
Col. P. Hy Nelson, Solicitor of the
Fifth" District, attends Court in
Edgefield.
Mr. J. P. Meroney who has bjen
studying pharmacy in Philadelphia
is at home. *
Mr. J. C. Mfin has gone on a trip
to Texas.
Mr. Harry K. DuBose, of Atlanta,
visits relatives in Camden.
II i.Y 31. 1912.
'The infant sun of Dr. S. M. Mc
C.aski!' dirt] .*'ur.ii:i\ ^vi'Si'nj.;.
Mr. .1. K. Shannon and family, of
Jefferson, have returned to Camden
to live.
Bethuns1 votes a special levy of
two mills for the benefit of the
schools.
Mr. J. M. Kirkiey, of Kershaw,
dies July 2Gth.
Large crowds attend .Junior Order
picnic at Shamrock.
The Ivor sh aw (iu:ird.; leave for
annual encampment at Anni.-ton, Ala.
Mr. .John A. Marion, r.f Vrvkvilio,
principal Camden Hitfh Sch >ol and
Miss Mary K >r*haw Burnet married
last Wednesday, Rev. .1 C Rowan of
ficiating.
Fi: d J -li oys tw.i eott:i.,'?. ? on J'^ast
York sheet.
County {? iiuii'i'it hV! meetings
in various p'irt : of county.
C t. W M h'ir. nnn an L Dr. .In >.
W. rr.rhitt. vi 'it Dr. S. Bai uch in
New York, to j? l* i f? c t p!:?n> for the
! Camden 1 1 ospital.
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