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[SABBATH OBSERVANC! j [ ..hied of Sermon by Rev. I. DeL. | I Uraiebuw at Grace. Kpiscopal ' I Church Sunday Morning.) it il h>w*ul t0 1,0 KOO<1 un l*,c bb?th P?y" Matthew, 12:152. :[vjr news-papers and our governor [J^having a merry time of I ^[j^rintf the pust few weeks regard. jjyj enforcement or nou-enforce'i [nt yf certain puritanical laws of . couple of centuries ago. Neither however, is to be taken too ?er[y, What with graft investigavBb after graft investigation, hank , Kjyre after hank failure, still raid V;^L ?fior still raiding, it is easy to 'jivK^er.naitti with what delight the <^[5rs editor hus tuken up this fresh ; [ail; while, on his part, the governor all niggardly in [ essing his opinions or in granting I ^^fcurviews, and they have succeodcd [ lifting antiquated laws and com-! [natively obscure individuals and or[tnizatiuns into the blaze of public [ttention, and have all received with[ut expense a rather unusual amount ^[i vers excellent advertising. I From the standpoint of the prin^[i , hiefore, the i would ^[,,'1. be eminently satisfactory, [nd fur the rest of us there has been ^[. <1 advantage, for we have been [tgrecukly entertained and have been [ed to renewed consideration of the it-1 leu ly impoi tant qui if on of [>ahha!h observance. Sum" people, to be sure, have been H igitated by the enforcement uf tin "blue laws." With the so-; >hibition of (lie liquor traffic .siill an absorbing topic, they are in ebiieil to think that a pattern has! [fin set for any amount of prohibitI "We've g'>t to be careful," they [ [iv. "Nowadays any hair-brained re^ >ruicr who has become obscessed [jth ^he notion Lhat he can legislate into his own particular view of [oraJ/ty will be able to have his pet [chome enacted into law if only he ^^morks hard enough and has money [noutfh behind him." The .subject before us may be con^widered under two heads: First, ^[(Jught Sabbath Observance to be ^fcnforced by Law?" Second, "How [Ought the Sabbath to be Observed [Quite Aside from Law?" Let us conifer them in their order. First. Ought Sabbath observance [o be enforced by law? To this ques[ion a categorical yes or' no cannot [e given. Legal provisions for such [bservance usually take, in our time, [he form of -prohibitions. People are ^ ot, as of old, required by law to go [o church, but they are still, in many [laces, prohibited from engaging i:i ^[inecessary labor or business, as well [s from giving public performances [ exhibitions, such as plays, moving ^[cture entertainments and games. [ow nobody except an anarchist is ^^ posed to prohibitions just because [ry are prohibitions. Laws against [irder, theft aqd arson are probibi[ns. We prohibit traffic in drugs [l women, the sending of obscene [tter through the mails, speeding, [ring a motorcar without a license, [doying children in industry, pick[ flowers in the park. Indeed, most I [ice provisions Involve prohibitions, [1 the main question to be asked of [y proposal is not, "Does it involve prohibition?" but rather, "Is the [posed prohibition well founded?" [ plying this test in our present dis[ssion, we must seek the basis of [gal provisions for Sabbath observ[ And I say to you frankly that if [ey are based on the injunctions of [ligion as such, they are not well [unded. This is a free country, re^[giously. In it every man is per[itted to wor^iip God as his own [nscience dictates, wfyich, of course, ^[' ans that he need not worship God [t-all if he does not desire to. An ^[h>'olute theocracy expressing itself ^[ human government is both impos[ble and undesirable; impossible, be['""' people could not agree as to [hat God's Will might be, and could [?t, in many subtle and delicate sit^[atior.s, enforce that will, though they [ould agree; undesirable, because if ^[">(! Will would be accurately asLJ^ % y' : certain**! and completely enfor.ni, the [frMtttt would change m.n i?to I automata. L?w. of Sabbath observ "a* !,n"'' "'"''ore, to be baa.-,! upon the hour,!, Commandment, con oidered only a, ? ri,ligi?ua ?, . rnant, or upon any,other eper.fu-ally Jeligious ground. But thero in rt Kimplt-f basl f human ?w thau the a, temp, t(l labu late and codify thu U ,)i <;,m1 ; [* f(J,Unid protection ?f lh, if dividual and of wk-ty in the enjoy-1 I "t well-recognized n^ht.s. Th, j aw ug?m?t murder ought not to he ! defended no'ely upon the authority of he Sixth Commandment, hut upon' h? protection of every man's right t() I ?nd to keep on living as long ?* *c can. The law against theft, is his protection in the enjoyment an.) control of property. The law against <*rson aims to assure him security (of abode. Can laws for Sabbath observance l>e justified as protecting people in the enjoyment of their natural rights? 1 believe they can 'he right to worship ? a natural right. Without it human life does jot achieve its highest or its best Worship must find concrete expression and the observance of a common day when men may meet to worahio together has been proved by long experience to be a necessary and worthy means of securing tty, expression of that nght. Man's laws, therefore, guarantee freedom for such expression, should recognize the necessity of peace and quiet to worshiping congregations. It is easy to see for example, how on this ground the' aw might prohibit a circus parade through the streets of this city on | bun-Jay, while perhaps not denying it liberty to exhibit as usual in-some1 remote location where its noise would I not invade the rightful peace of those I desiring to use the day for worship. In like manner the right to reasonable rest and recreation is a natural * right. We recognize it to some extent in provisions for a shorter working day and for the Saturday halfholiday, but it finds its best expression in laws for Sunday rest; laws forbidding the exploitation of laborers or workmen or sales forces seven days in the week. It is surely conservative enough to assume that every man is entitled to at ieast one day in, seven for his own uses'. Good sense and expediency would dictate maintaining Sunday as that day. And provisions to that effect ought never to be abolished from our law lest the greedy and the heartless should take undue advantage of those whom they employ. To be sure, not all Sunday labor can or ought to be abolished. We do not wish-our policemen or. firemen to abstain from labor on that day. Moreover, and this is particularly true in the larger cities, the very requirements of the majority for rest and recreation make necessary the labor of many others who minister to those needs, just as the protection of people in their right to worship makes Sunday a busy day for choirmaster>, sextons and preachers. Wherever the conditions of Sunday rest and recreation for the majority jrfakes necessary the labor of a minority, provision should, be made for the granting of some other day of the week as a rest-day In general, then, we may arrive at this principle: No activity should be legally prohibited on Sunday which is legal on other days of the week unless it interferes either with man's natural right of worship or of rest. Second. Having said this, let me turn at once to the second aspect of our subject, and one which more closely concerns us. as Christians. How ought the Christian to spend his Sunday quite aside from the lavnr? First of all, he should welcome it as a breathing spell for his soul. How I hard it is, in our strenuous mode of j life, to give the soul a chance to1 breathe. The morning rush, the daily grind, the evening's pleasures leave scant time for prayer, for meditation, for the reading that counts. Sunday offers a change and a respite. One does not have to think the usual thoughts or do the usual things. It is possible to throw off the burdens of the week, to join with one's neigh-, bors in prayer'and praise, to receive religious instruction, and to feel the fires on the altars of our hearts re-1 kindled. Sunday, too, gives us op-! portunity as Christians to do special service for our Lord which through! ^the week is impossible, a chance to remember the sad and the sick, the privilege of helping others to a better understanding of the Christian way. No Christian who thus dais with Sund?y^but will find Tiis own soul r$-. newing its strength and mounting up as on eagle's wings. And, once more, Sunday should be hailed as a home day. It is the only j^day, in most homcp, where all the family can be together for all three -meal*. U should be the happiest day of all the week to the children, a day to wear their best clotties, to ha?$ the hetf dinner tn know'?vBt fntbf> and mother will be on hand to tell them stories or read to them9 a day to go to church and Sunday pchool and to meet their friends there; a day for long rides and rambles with their parents. The American home has ever been the security and the , hope of American civihiuliun. Modj ''t life menaces it in many ways. |>tt ; Mi. day come to jr. rescue by giving ;'ime for the ripening <>f " richer ?fj feet ion anions the members of the faint.> and for participation in those i * oikoidant j?ys without which A j home I comes a little more than a' ) lltjum' Shall Christians play golf and tennis oil Sunday ? "It is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day," >aid Jesus, and that may well indu ie our own Rood along with that of others. The "l,H "Unl man must have attention. I ' !?. means, as w?- have seen, church attendance. For father and mothers with children at home it means the giving of special companionship and Instruction. Hut when a man's work is such that he has not the proper amount of tune for necessary physical exercise and recreation on weekdays, 1 should In- the last to deny him jthe right to his Sunday play. If, j however, he plays all day, it is eaiy to see that he cart s more for his body than he does for Ins soul. Some men's ideas of Sunday observance are purely negative. They would not. for the world, swing a racijut or a hat or a stick on Sunday, hut they spend the day indolently ut home, over-sleeping, over-eating, over-smoking and with nothing Iretter to read than the Sunday paper. I would much prefer to have a man I come to church in the morning and I'luy golf in the afternoon than to go through such a program. It would be infinitely better both for his soul and his body. To sum up: .Just as man's natural rights of worship and of rest ought to be the foundation upon which Sunday laws are based, so these natural, rights, expressing themselves as needs, should guide the Christian in his u*e of Sunday. No doubt, he needs u holiday, a day of rest frorq wonted toil; but, likewise, even mora, does he not need a holiday, a day which he may voluntarily devote to the strengthening of faith, the deepening of spiritual desires, the enriching of Christian love? In the end it comes to this: Let the Christian use his Sunday conscientiously and thoughtfully; let him see it in glorious opportunity and a wondrous privilege; let him engage in no work or rest or recreation in which he would be ashamed to invite his Lord's companionship. If he will follow these guide posts he will not lose his way. Barber Shop BUI Defeated Senator W. Claude Martin's bill to prohibit white women's patronizing negro barber shops in South Carolina was killed for the session Tuesday night when the house, reversing its decision of a few minutes before in favor of the bill, voted to continue the measures until next year. The vote, taken on the motion of E. W. , Dabbs, Jr., of Sumter, was 62 to 40 to carry the bill over to the next session. Hardly 60 seconds before the house had refused 48 to 53 to kill the bill on motion of Ben B. Sellers of Marion to strike out the enacting words of the measure. Ben B. Sellers of Marion, whose motion to strike out the enacting words of the measure had opened the battle against the bill, echoed thisconclusion. "This bill," he declared, "is avjeflection on the white women of South Carolina. That's all there is in it. You might just as well say that a white man cannot employ a negro cook. "And then it attempts to classify barber shops. 'Class 1 where there are only white barbers.' I know second class shops operated by second class white men. And I'd rathe* my folk patronize a first-class negro barber shop than a second-class white barber shop." At Last, "She," In Picture Form The cravings of millions who road "She," the immortal love romance of the late Sir Rider Haggard, are now satisfied for at last comes the motion picture of , the most wondrous romance ever told. True in every detail "She" a masterpiece and faithful in every'respect to the story. So that not a trace of the subject should be lost and to avoid a jarring note of discord with the masterpiece as written, the company with lovely Betty Blythe set out to the depths of darkest* Africa to film the sensational chapters in the original settings described by Sir Rider Haggard. Here in the subterranean, city with ila fantastic caves, again on the peaks of mountains, and at the edge of !a bottomless abyss the dramatic and exciting scenes were photographed. The love story 'tof the most beagtiful woman the world has ever known is told amidst settings so majestic and strange as to awe the most blase spectator. Supporting Betty Blythe is Carlyle Blackwell and Mary Odette. "She" is the special attraction at The Lyric Theatre, Bishopville, S. C., FridnyA March 11. ' " " i The snowfall at High Point, N. C.f Tuesday night totaled 26 inches. . ?' - . * SJ ? ( ' th'** * ? 1 * * ? +- ?l -- f i " -A v . J _ v Pi j _ I low Doctors Treat | Golds and the Flu i? I To break up a cold overnight or ^ CQt short an. attack of grippe, inWuenza, gore throat or tonsillitis, phy icians and druggists are tiow recom^Fiending CalotM, the purified and ^ ^iinod calomel compound tablet that ^Kiy< s you the effects of calomel and combined, without the unpleasant effects of either. 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At any B** 8tor?- ( <*) v ? - BRINGS ON SPIRITED DEBATE i Governor's Law Enforcement Officer ] Object of Personal Remarks . i Columbia, March I.?Beset by u spirited, persona! debate over the 1 gove.rpor'a special law enforcement 1 fund of $48,000 the $0,177,000 appro- 1 priHtion bill reported out by the ways { and means committee made slow ' " " I progress toward passage at todays session of the house, and resumption ' of the debute was ordered for tonight mi the hope of completing con- ' Mderatioii of the measure us xpeediK as possible. i; Representative Love, of Greenville,, started the fight by proposing to 1 strike <>ut all the appropriations for ' sal a i n s and expenses of state constables, leaving the governor about * $.r>,hUU in the law enforcement fund. ' Although bis amendment was rejected, 7'J to 2d, the vote was not reached 1 until many members had participated ' in the debate that was at times acrimonious. The nume of W. VV. Rogers, slur ' deteitive under Governor Mclx'od, arid chief investigator of the Aiken lynching, sfhee recommissioned by * | Govt mor Richards, was brought into 1 discussion by Representative Stan-0 field of Aiken, who asked Representatlve Love: ' 1 "Isn't the law enforcement officer under this section W. W. Rogers?" Then in rapid order while Speaker pro tern John B. Duffie rapped his < gavel and declared personalities would : not be permitted, the Aiken repre- < sen'ative shot at Mr. Love: "Hasn't he been tried for every crime in the catalogue?" "Wasn't he run out of the state of Georgia?" "Wouldn't your amendment legis- , lat< cattle of that sort out of a job?" , On the roll call vote, however, M"r. Stuns field was recorded as voting again-1 the amendment and in favor of ri taming the appropriation for the constabulary. "We have 122 peace officers in Greenville county," he declared, "and if that number can't enforce the law, I don't believe it will be any better enforced by having one more. These state constables are always accompanied by a deputy sheriff or a federal officer, and all they do is to provide one more witness when the ease comes to trial." "Who caught the bootleggers in Hell Hole?" interrupted Chairman McCaslun, of tjie ways and means ommittee. "Federal officers, I believe," Mr. Love answered. "ll wasn't the local officers, was t?" demanded MeCaslan. "Are you afraid to trust people?" i itme back tin- Greenville legislator, isiiiK a phrase that Governor Rich tnls stressed in his inaugural ad-| lress and one that figured largely ast \ve*k in the debate on the ad ninistrat ion measures to abolish the' ax commission. Mi. McCaslan replied that he was lot afraid "to trust the people" but le was in favor of law enforcement nul law and order. Keverl ing to the question about he IJi-li 11 ole I ail Is Mr. I ,ove said ' > he Greenwood representative "1 am informed that tin state of icers testified >n favor of tin- hoot t'ggi i s." "Wlio was appointed in your coun'.j | is state constable f" Representative )lin Johnston, of Spartunburg asked he Greenville member. "Art ex-sheriff who was defeated in Lhe primary," l.ove reported. "Of a different political faction t ftom yours," remarked Johnston. The Grienville member declared holly that he was not acting on any factional basis, and that anyone who Intimated as much did not know whereof he spoke. Man Fror.cn To Death Florence, March 2.? Frozen to i ieath, the'body of Clarence Wood row, j lf>, member of a well-known Florence ounty family, was found this morn-' ing on tin- porch of 510 West Sumter street, three blocks distance from his home. Woodrow was an employe of the state highway department. When he did not return home at the usual hour a search was made for him lusting! until midnight but without success. His automobile was found parked in j the business section. When found this morning his body was party cov-j ered with snow and ice. He wore a suit of overalls over his clothing. The "body was discovered by Jeter j Rhodes, father of a newsboy who was helping his son deliver his route. Snow was falling at tho time. Woodrow leaves a^'widow and five smpll children. His mother and sister live here. Released at the end of August, 1926, at Hyde Park Corner, London, a toy balloon came down near St. Paul's Cathedral 117 days later. (lypbicfl Placed Under Arrest & Ah a climax t? a rale of 175 miles traffic officer <\ It. Si rick land arrest c<l twenty "five gypsies Monday afternoon and indeed thorn in the Jad nr. Ridgcland. He was Joined in the chase at Hampton by a state constab!c and officer Lloyd at Ridgcland with hih deputies moisted in the final wind up. I'|h>11 g< lling tin- report thai imt- or two persean at Druwdy'i, sovcial miles from Walterhoio had* been held up hy the gypsies and relieved of sums of money, the Colleton , fofee started out. (thief of Police Poach, wjth Ins officers Reeves and Strickland went in Uiffci enl directions v .11 search of the automobiles with the gypsies. It waa eatimn'ed that a 'i lal o! '(00 miles was covered by 11 cm- officers. jg The gypsies went' hebl in the jail at Ri Jgt land about two hours and . then it. leased upon payment of $100 and returning the amount stolen. Officer Strickland elates that even while undi arrest the children of the gypsi s ct -itinuisl stealing.?Wulterboro I'rcss and Standard M The coronation spoon in the Tower of London is believed to be the oldest English silver spooa in existence. || 1 1NAJ.DISCHARGE I Notice is hereby given that one month from thin date, on Monday, March 21st, 1927, I will make to the ?j Probate Court of Kershaw County my final return as (luardlan of the estate of Arthur L. Jones, minor, and on the same date 1 will apply to the said 'Court fo>' a final discharge as said ~lg | Guardian. PAUL E. JONES. A j Camden, S. C.t vob. 1?, 1927. FINAL DISCHARGE | Notice is liereby given that one month from thin <iate, on Monday, | March 11th, 1927, 1 will make to tno Probate Court of Korahnw County my final return as Guardian of the estates of Arthur !*??> Herron and-Margaret Theresa Herron, minors, and on the surne dale I will apply to the [said Court for a final discharge as ...Ja said Guardian. i MRS. C. F. JAMES, formerly Mrs. Nannie M. Herron. Camden, S. C., Fob. 10, 1927. FINAL DISCHARGE I . . .1. J Notice is hereby given that one month from this date, on Tuesday, ? March 15th, 1927, 1 will make to the , Probate Court of Kershaw County my final return us Kxeeutor of the Estate of Mrs. Isabetle Heotta Salmond, and on the same date 1 will apply to the said Court for a final discharge V from my trust as said Executor, ? -"M W. D. MoDOWALL. Camden, S. C., Feb. Ill, 1927. , " - r: - ssz- ."* i'.-- ? - f X 7 " " THE SAFETY DEPOSIf *? -rr - - it . . . . . EVERYONE IS INTERESTED IN THE PROBLEM AS TO WHERE HE SHOULD KEEP HIS VALUABLES. IT IS kUCH BETTER TO PUT THEM IN ' AN INSTITUTION WHOSE BUSINESS IT IS TO ? SAFEGUARD THEM THAN TRY TO PROTECT THEM YOURSELF. USE THE SAFETY DEPOSIT VAULT OF THIS BANK. The First National Bank Of .Camden, South Carolina