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I " imPROVED^^^^^ ' UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL CUNDAY I I bcHooL Lesson I ^;S?B52SHgLesson for March 14 ?-rn Council "oV Helfgtou. EdOoalK*; u.ed by I pcrnil<Mot?. IN THE UPPER ROOM f VSSON TEXT?John 13:12-20; 14.18. I COl l)KN TEXT?Jesus ?aith unto him. I ?"'! <"? "u,b' ?"d ,h? IU,: "" Z ~m?h ' ,he Ka,her- bul by John 14 6Calvary and crucifixion were just ahead. Jesus gathered His disciples for a time of communion and instruction as ihey spent their last ! I evening together. On the morrow would come-betrayal, but now they and their Lord were together in the I upper rQpm. But even here strife and dissension had apparently come in. There I was probably some difference of opinion as to who should have the j place of honor. To teach them the I virtue of humility Jesus gave them I an example, after which He continued with the precious counsel and prayer which are found in John 14 I to i?I Our lesson presents three things which our Lord gave to His disciples and to us (see John 17:20). I. His Example?"Do as I Have Done" (13:12-20). The act of Jesus in washing the disciples' feet placed Him, their Lord I and Teacher, on the level of the I most menial servant. It was an astonishing thing that He did, lowering Himself below their level to serve them. His application of the object lesson was equally startling. "Ye call I me Teacher and Lord, and ye say I well," said He. Then as learners and servants He required of them I the humility which would make them eager to do lowly service in His name. I There are more than enough folk who are willing to do the nice, pleasant things in the church, where they I will be given recognition and praise. All too scarce are those Christlike folk who will serve in the hidden I places where darkness, suffering, disease and sin make the natural man recoil in distress or fear. II. His Assurance?"If I Go I I Will Come Again" (14:1-3). ? Following His resurrection Jesus was to go to the Father. He wanted them to be prepared for that time by making known to them the fact of His coming again. In that day I His own shall be received unto Himself to abide with Him forever. j The second coming of Christ is not a strange doctrine held by I little groups of people who*are rid ing a theological hobby. It is one of the most blessed truths of ScripI ture. The hope of the Christianyes, the only real hope of this disordered world?is the coming of Christ to reign? The New Testament is full of plain and helpful teaching on this subject. While we await His coming, then, is there any encouragment for us as the burdens bear down and the way seems long? Yes, He says: "Let not your heart be troubled" (v. 1). There is little question that this passage has comforted more people than any other word in Scripture. Countless bewildered and broken souls in all lands and times have here found the steadying assurance of the one who has the power to give them rest and Comfort. There is good foundation for their composure of heart in a troubled world. They believe in God, and in Christ, who is one with the Father. Here is real security?infinitely su-^ perior to aught the world can give. Then at the end of the road are the eternal dwelling places. What they are like is sufficiently revealed in the fact that they are in the Father's house. How shall we reach them? That is our last point. We have in. His Guidance?"I Am the Way" (vv. 4-6). To Christ's declaration that they knew the way, Thomas responded with a request for a definite statement. He wanted to be sure, and Christ responded by reminding him that He, their Lord, is the "way, the truth, and the life." Surely there could be no more complete provision for the guidance of the heavenly pilgrim. Christ is "the way." If one takes the right road he will reach the right destination though he "cannot at first see it clearly. Perhaps this is the commonest mistake of the Christian. He frets too much about what lies ahead . . . and not enough about taking the right road" (Lesson Commentary). He is "the truth." He is the final and complete revelation of God, and is therefore the One who will lead all those who walk the way by faith into the fullness of the truth. To know Christ is to know God. He is "the life." He is life, and He alone can give eternal life to man. There is none other to whom man may turn for life, but in Christ it is found, and from Him it may be received by faith. We have only touched the briefest beginning of what took place on that remarkable evening in the upper room. It was a time of richest spiritual significance, of dailt betrayal, but also of closest communion. We continue next Sunday. ' Soil Conservation News (By V. T. Mullen L. II. Ctttoe^f the Cussutt section ia budding terraces (bis woek with a turn-plow and V-drag. Lines were recently run by the Lynches River Soli Conservation District Moultrie Burns baa begun land preparation lor Ills Kudzu on bis farm near the Airport. Mr Burns plana to plant approximately 8 acrea of Kudzu on land too unproductive for continuous row crop cultivation. J. L. Sweet of the Hoykin . community baa been doing some woodland improvement work on 4 acres Of timber. This plat was marked on a selective basis which consists of thinning, pruning and removing crooked, inferior trees. Terrace lines were recently run on the farms of B. C. Poarce, Sr., and U. N. Myers of the Boykln section by the District. These terraces will be built with a tractor and disc tiller. L. I. Guion is planting 60,000 pine seedlings on his farm. These seedlings consist of Longleaf, Slash and Loblolly. Mr. Guion is planting idle black-jac^ areas and interplanting scattered pine stands. Southern Soldiers Like Yank Sports 9 The kids from South Carolina, from Mississippi, Georgia and other states below the Mason-Dizon line shivered in the below zero weather at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin. But according to? letters received from Wisconsin newspaper buddies of Frank H. Heath, former Wisconsin news writer who is publicity director here in Camden, the boys from the southland soon ovecome the shivers and believe it or not have taken to nothern winter sports jvith gusto and enthusiasm. Most of the boys from the south never saw snow before, but they are sure seeing plenty this winter up in the Wisconsin camp. Four feet the level so far this season and when tho "wind picked up the white crystal drifts fifteen to twenty feet deep were created. The boys from Dixie will stand up and with faces straight and not a grin in sight solemnly declare they are about "frozen to death," but when the day's labor is over and they have a free period, they rush off to spend a couple of hours in mastering fee skating. Navigating the ski slides and in even attempting a trek with snow shoes. The interesting part of it all Is that the physical records show that1 the "Johnny Rebs" have put on weight and fairly radiate health and energy. When they first arrived in Wisconsin and experienced their first Introduction to zero temperature the boys even resorted to wearing three pairs of pants, several pair of sox and at night some wore their overcoats to bed. But as they became accustomed to the dry air they soon discarded the extra clothing, found that a blanket or two were sufficient covering at night and now admit that "it's a swell country." Several North Carolina soldiers have become so interested in skating and other outdoor snow and ice sports that they have to be called several times for mess. NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS All parties indebted to the estate ot Grover C. Welch are hereby notified to make payment to the undersigned, and all parties, if any, having claims ] against th{Ksafcl estate will present them UkewBjp duly attested, within the time prescribed by law. j \ F. EDNA WELCH, Administratrix Camden, S. C.) January 15, 1943. EXCHANGE (Continued from page 4) (one of those plutocratic inatructors out at the air school wants a new car) and youc letter? make me very unhappy. (Phonfe rings and it is the wife saying supper is ready. Then we rush home to supper and back, finishing the letters with a minimum of interruptions. Go by NICK's to get a cup of coffee and find him closed for the night. So on home at last. THE WIFE greets us with: ''Here's a wonderful saTIRE I know you would enjoy when you reTIRE as I know you are TIREd." Then finally to sleep in the wee hours to have a nightmare of being chased through a sea of hot gooey rubber by a tank with rubber tires a mile high. Then THE BABY cries and it is time to get up and Btarl all over again. Gosh, I'm TIREd. THE EDITOR. (P. S.) Any readers crazy enough to like this type of editorial, just say so, and maybe we'll do it again. NOBODY'S BUSINESS By Geo McGee WANTED: A NON SCRATCH WOOLEN NIGHT CAP 1 know why I sleep In u sleeping porch in summer, but I can't explain why 1 sleep in a sleeping porch in winter. It's either habit or insanity, or inohho both. To shorten a long story, my bald head gets mighty cold , when the thermometer tickles 19 and 20, as it has been doing hero of lute. I dedicod to us-o a night-cap. not the kind you drink, but the kind some folks wear. 1 knew what I wanted. | i hud seen so many little girls wearing , stocking caps . . . that covered their , heads and could be pulled down over | their ears. 1 felt sure that such a garment would take good care of my upper story ... In the sleeping porch. 1 went into over a dozen stores bolero 1 bought what 1 wanted. All of 1 them had the'kind of caps 1 felt that 1 I must have, but as ladies and women 1 only sold such equipment, I got I ashamed to ask any of them to oven 1 show me one, much less to let me I try one on. I kept putting it off un- 1 t-i 1 I reached the conclusion that I ought to buy1 ono for my little niece ... (I have not little niece, but that j was a good excuse). I mustered up cdurage enough to tell a pretty littlo blonde clerk that I wanted to buy a nice woolen stocking cap for a littlo niece that had a little head about the size of my littlo head. Site showed mo one and I pulled it down over my cranium and it felt O.K., so I bought it. I haven't been able to wear this cap. It's a war-wool cap, I'm sure, aud the wool was evidently .cut from the back of some old billy goat. It scratches my noodle so I can't stand it. I've tried it many times, and would always wake up during a dream where a bunch of fellows was trying to put a skull cap on my head that was made out of barb-wire. I'll just go ahead and freeze, I reckon. FARM BOUND I Hee by the papers that the gbveriii meat is going to draft labor for farm work. That's a hot one. I'd like to know who they are going to draw on for that purpose. I warrant to haul every person that will be sent to the farms in my state (South Carolina), for actual farm labor, in a wheelbar- 1 row. * What does a man want to work on j a farm for under the present circumstances and conditions? If a man owns his own farm and works his own family thereon, the very best he can hope to do is to make a fair living. His earnings, even at present farm prices, won't average over 26c per hour for actual time spent, in growing and gathering crops. One of my neighbors, a farmer and Jack-leg carpenter, has heretofore farmed and has grown a reasonably died crop of stuff . . . which, nil ! old. netted him uhout $500 per year, i ' saw him lust week, he Is workitiK in 'hurleston and is heiiiK paid now only) $71.35 per week, but expects a alse pretty soon. Another tenant armei that barely kept himself in -hewing tobacco and overalls is geting $5850 per week. There are mil ions of others just like these two allows. Who will he drafted to do farm lator? Certainly not the clerks and chool teachers and industrial workir?? They are already making five intes as much as any farmer can pay hem. <Coafers might bo drafted, hut hey won't work when they reach the arms. There aim any uso in wishlul hinklng; the farmers are going to ise the labor they have at present and he little they can pick up all along iiul do the best they can. None Is ;oing to he sent to them unless some gency, besides the farmer himself, ays the freight. I'm a farmer; I hink 1 know what 1 am talking about. Camden Boy Joins Marines Herman Wilbur Huff, son of Mrs. Willie Mae Huff of Camden has been Inducted into the I'nited States Marine Corps and will receive recruit training at (he Harris Island base. Young Huff chose the Marine Corps when offered his choice of service branches at the Army induction center Jit Fort Jackson. At Harris Island he will learn rifle and pistol markesmanship. drill, military courtesy and discipline and the responsibilities of a Marine. I'pon completion of recruit training ho will he assigned to advanced training or to one of the seventeen specialists' schools operated by the Marine Corps. TIP FOR SLICING BREAD For the housewife who is having difficulty in slicing bread smoothly, here Is a tip from the Office of War Information. Heat the blade of the knife until It's a little too hot to touch, then slice the loaf of bread. It's surprising how smoothly the blade will glide through the loaf, slicing cleanly and evenly, leaving no crumbs to litter up the table. State Theatre I Kershaw, S. C. j FRIDAY, FEB. 12 "THE WAR AGAINST MRS. HADLEY" | Fdward Arnold -Fay Huintor I I SATURDAY, FEB. 13 I "SUNSET SERENADE" | Boy UoKors- Oeorgo "dubby" \ j Hayes | I SATURDAY, FEB. 13 j | 10:30 P. M. I COUNTER ESPIONAGE' VVarrou William?Frio Bloro j i MON.-TUES., FEB. 15-16 I "A YANK AT ETON" Mickey ltooney lCdmund Owoiin I | WEDNESDAY, FEB. 17 | "MANILA CALLING" j ldoyd Nolan?Carol I-andla | THURSDAY, FEB. 18 I j "SPRINGTIME IN THE ROCKIES" I ! Boity lirable?John Payne HJ Matinee?Adults 25c; children I i under 12, 11o Evening?Adults, 30c; children I | under 12, 11o j j Greasing Adds LIFE! Your car will last longer if you're carefull to have it greased regularly by one who knows all of the fine points of the job... We can help you to get more life from your car. Bring it in for a greasing today. Washing and Greasing is our Specialty. Also Certified Tire Inspection?Sinclair Products ? LAFAYETTE SERVICE STATION DeKalh Street - Telephone 110 W A -B- A ^ g GOVERNMENT FORBIDS Service Stations To Charge Gasoline To Individual Customers ? However?commercial truck operators with T-Ration Books, United States, State and Political Subdivision operated vehicles ' ?r" can maintain credit accounts. A i - * * i II PETROLEUM DIRECTIVE 62 AS AMENDED JAN. 19, 1943 || Section 1525.1 (Petroleum Directive 62) is hereby amended to read as y follows: o *' (a) Definitions. I (1) "Persons7' means any individual, partnership, association, business ! trust, corporation, governmental corporation, or agency, or any j C organized group of persons, whether incorporated or not. X I (2) "Retail Outlet" means any place of business where motor fuel is ! sold at retail, Including, but not limited to, any place of business ! where motor fuel is delivered into the fuel supply tanks of motor ' vehicles or motor boats. i (b) Extension of Credit at Retail Outlets Prohibited | (1) Commencing February 1,. 1943, no person shall, directly or indirect- j ly, grant or accept or participate in the granting or accepting of | credit in connection with the sale of any petroleum product by or , j A , through any retail outlet: Provided, (1) that nothing In this para- i I I graph shall be deemed to apply to the sale of any petroleum I products (a) to the United 8tates, any state, territory of the United j States, subdivision, or any political subdivision for the foregoing, or the District of Columbia, for its exclusive use; (b) for use in motor boats used for commercial purposes; or (c) for use in motor I vehicles displaying "T" Jjalion stickers^?and (2)-that nothing In 1 this paragraph shall be deemed to prohibit the use or distribution Of coupon or scrip books when sold for cash. I j - - (Signed) Harold L. Ickes, Petroleum Administrator for War. I - " We regret?very much to be forced to discontinue credit accounts with jj j so many of our loyal customers?But due to this recent government jjj I ruling, we can -not do it and obey the law . . . we do want to assure all 111 of our customers that we will gladly do all we can to co-operate with | them?We appreciate your patronage and want to serve you. V I - W. P. Horton West DeKalb Street Central Service Station v DeKalb Street Telephone 148 Clark8on'8 Esso Station DeKalb Street Telephone 667 Sheheen98 Texaco Service DeKalb Street Telephone 137 Carolina Motor Company 1111 Broad Street ^Telephone 210 . f*~* - ' , - : ' ???mmtm DeKalb Service Station Allen Norris, Owner A DeKalb Street Telephone 211 OOOOOO OO po Q0< Langford's Esso Station DeKalb Street Telephone 9114 East Side Service Station J. B. Rush, Proprietor A East DeKalb Street ' Speaks Oil Company East DeKalb St. Telephone 150 V