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Friday, December 24, 1943
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own corjiffrcfnity, like the rest
of^the^^iortdTnas been shaken by the
rn3er of guns. This thunder echoes
' ill-our-ears-a&Avc once more celebrate
th^birthof the Prince^TPeacE
It tliblrewsmper se^ no irony in
Vesper Hour Proves
Impressive Affair
At Soldier Center
Episcc^al
Offer
Rector > and Cboir
An Impiring
Sendee.
ed by many people, Incinrfi^.
in tbe City on
Old famUlar hym^a- .
eertnonette by the *^Pi;
a ChrlBtmaa anthem ^ twl,
singing of Chrlatmas carol!
era offered a delightful ^
45 minute interfude.
The coming Sunday the
[11 be In charge df Rey.
will «i Key.
ilns, pastor of' the Lytilenl^
.M. E. Church and wiil^aS?*
monette and the singing o, V
[All service men, cadets^ ® .*»yan
^^^^^ ^N^hevse^trs^f war afttP-the^essage of
hope that^is Gmsti^..
For it\is the everlasting hooe of Christ masthar
The Initial Sunday afternoon vesper dates and townspeople “are'*'*
service In the Service Men's Center Invited to attend the vesper
here was one of the peak events of . *7
the three-day dedicatory program of .
'this fme contribution to Camden and
Kershaw county’s war effort. ; WAR BONDS for CHRIST-
[• The vesper hour, conducted by Dr. MAS. Keep on Backing the
Maurice Clarke, rector of Gi-ace Epis- Attack. * *
copal church an^ featuring the sur-/
piked choir of ihh church was attend-! ,
HAVE YOU MET THE MASTER?
I had walked life’s way with an easy tread,
Had followed where comforts and pleasure led,
Until one day in a quiet place
I met the Master face to face.
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With station and rank and wealth for my goal,
Much thought for_mx_^dx])ut no.nC-/-P soul,
! haff entered^ win in race, ,
Wthen I met the Master face to face.
I met Him and knew Him and blushed to see
That His eyes, full of sorrow, were fixed on me.-
I faltered and fell at His feet that day,
Melted and vanished, and in their .place
Nought else did I see but the Master’s face.
And I cried aloud, “Oh I make me meek .
To follow the steps of Thy wounded feet’’
My thought is now for the souls of men,
I have lost my life to find it again.
Ere since one day in a quiet place ■“
I met the Master face'to face.
O, LITTLE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM
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• Phillip Brooks, pastor of the Church .of the Holy Trinity
(Episcopal), Philadelphia, spent a year abroad in 1865-G6.
In December of 1866 his travels took him to the Holy Land.
He visited Bethlejhem, Nazareth and Jerusalem. On Christ
mas eve he and his friends left Jerusalem to make the journey
to Bethlehem.
On this journey he saw the town of Bethlehem lying
“still in the darkness.’’ Three years later Brooks want^ a
Christmas song for this Sunday school. He decided to write
verses that would picture the beauties of the night he spent
in Bethlehem, so he described it thus:
O, little town of Bethlehem,
How still we see thee lie. ■,
Above thy deep and dreamless sleep
The silent stars go by;
Yet in thy dark sheets shineth
The everiastrng tigirt;
The hopes and fears of aH the years
Are met in thee tonight.
He took the verses to his organist, Lewis H. Redner, and
asked him to compose a tune for them. Rednes went to bed
on Christmas eve without finding a melody. Suddenly, he
says, he was awakened in the middle of the night by
“angel strain.’’ He arose and immediately wrote it down.
THE TEHERAN CONFERENCE
Since
effects ot the w^ar lords on oufNnormai way
living-we\know^ that^the^I^c^l()ving “little”
xlwill far outnumoer the evil.
oodwiii lar ou
These “little” p6^le ^^e thE^ vcitizensvof this
ity and otner
communiti
And
men of goodwill
These “littf "
communitjra
it was for these sam^ “littl^ peopE
came into this world'1943 y^rs ago
So Christmps belongs to them andoiot to
those who plunge the world into darkne^ •
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I'rist
tet^This "frue spirlt ^oTT^nsfrifas dbirlinaTe
your thinking and you can say to all yoi^r
friends as we now say to you-
A Hteu^ Cfiusifnas
Christmas Night
At Soldier
Center Is Planned
Santa Claus, Tree and Every-
thbig To Add Tun To
EvMit.
A Christmas night ball, with hun
dreds of youths In "uniform, and
scores of Camdes’s fairest belles will
be the peak social event of the Yule
season here Saturday night in the
fine new auditorium of the Service
Men’s Center.
The Serenaders, ah eight piece jive
orchestra. ► with Tommie Lazznra,
drummer from a name band In New
York, and now at Fort Jackson, will
provide-the musical hrspirjrtion fof
the dancers.
in
There ha.s been much speculation following the announc
ed results of' the Teheran conference and judging by the edi
torial comment appearing in the American press this meeting
of Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill which made big news, has
been sttrnewhat^d' tmlisappoinlmrnt to many.
There is the comroilirig thought however that Sbilin has
pledged Ku.'^.'^ia to stick in the scrap until CernKiny is defeated.
Issues which it was feared would .threaten a ilivision in the
(ie.-»ireii solid ITunt have been amicable settled and so we
label the conference as a success.
The Charlotte Observer has some pointed statements
anent this conference which we regard as highly interesting.
F()r inslanc(‘ comment in the Sunday issue of this fine paper
says in‘part:
“Stalin naturally has his own ideas as to what kind of
Europe he wants. And certainly his ideas cannot be the same
as those of Churchill and Roosevelt. We take the position,
and .have promised, that as soon as Germany is beaten and
the Nazis driven out of the occupied countrie.s, the nations
T)f Eun)percah ¥st^Ti^ the governments they want wTlhouT
outsiile interference. But as the dominant European power,
ST7i1irr'’tviH wwmlwhat >urms of governments the
peoples of Finland, Poland, the Baltic States, rnos
laJ.kaiis..-aiid_-P-qssib]y in td-foer-EiH’a^an JwHtms, wj^ly al
lowed to have.
’ “And if a majority of the people in one or more of those
countries doesn’t like the new,‘Stalin order.’.there is probably,
nothing we will do about it except hold a few more, confer
ences. ' Certainly, we’re not going to fight Russia.
“South Africa’s brilliant Prime Minister, 73-year-old Jan
tCbrietian Smuts; tells an audience in London that when this
war ends, we shall be faced with questions ‘so vast,, so com
plicated, so difficult and intractable, that in the end we shall
nave to be satisfied with making a pretty comprehensive
armistice dealing with the general military question of ending
the war, and leaving the rest of the problems to a long series
of conferences without coming to any general peace con
ference at all.’
“The above is the most realistic view any Important world
statesman has publicily taken thus^far.
“A year from now Europe will have completely changed.
Three of the five great powers will have disappeared. France
has gone and, as Mr. Smuts pointed out, ‘if ever she returns
it will be a long upward pull,’ Italy may never be a great
/ power again. Germany .‘purely will never emerge again, at
’least during our lifetime; in the old form, Europe is theie-^
fore left with only Great Britain and Russia. Ryssiu is the
new colossus that will be mistr* ss of that continent, her pow er
not only great on that account but it will be greater because
the Japanese Empire will also have gone. Therefore any
check or balance that might have b„een in the East will have
gone% ^
. “Great Britain, with a glory and honpr and prestige such
as no nation has ever enjoyed in history, will emerge an ex
tremely poor country from a material economic standpoint.
Mr. Smuts says ‘she will have put her body and soul and every-
into Winning this battle of mankind. She w’ilj have won
. it, but she will come out of it poor in sub^tAihce’.’’
If old Dobbin, has to* be called ba^k into service, he’ll
laugh.
The Center, gay with Yule decora-
ftona, including a niammoth Christ
mas tree, has just been formally dedl-
(•at«d with H threo day proRram which
included a dtHllcatory event Friday
ulRht, dance on Saturday nlRht and a
carol and vesper service Sunday.
The Christmas nlRht ball will be
ushered In by the arrival of Santa
Claus carrying a large pack. He will
be greeted, by the playing and singing
of “Santa Claus is Gomlng Tonight.’’
During the evening the canteen of the
Center will be active in supplying le-
freshtnents to the merrymakers.
The ball will be under the super
vision of the dance committee of the
rOTITrliT cotiiiHr, aughiented by a group
of Camdm matrons who <^111 act as
hostesses and parronnesses,
Tl;e Catiiden Servh'e .M^n's Center
has lonverted the old armory huihl’ng
into a thing f»f ht*atttr; The ffnnr Is
I the riiie-t (lance art^a in lh< elly while
{ new furniture, drapes, etc., have givi n
ilh(' pi.ic(' the ap()ear:»neo of a high
Ah! Serenaders Are
Real Hot Musicians.
A few years ago a group of Cam
den young men who delighted In ex
tracting music from trumpets, sax,
.— -piano,- dranaa, ote^r - banded- together
and formed an orchestra.
Their music wasn’t so hot in those
early days and the boys knew it—^t
they kept right on’ plugging along imd
have developed into a nifty musical
group, now known as Billy Burns
and his Serenaders.
The “gang’’ has playdd at many
dances in Camden during tbe past
year or so—In fact—practically all of
them. Last Saturday they played at
the dedication' dance at the Service
Men’s Center, tomorrow night they
will be at the Center again to play
for the Christmas night ball and on
.N'ew Year’s night they are "scheduled
to provide the musle for the New
Year’s night ball at the Center.
The boys who constitute the “Big
Five" of the orchestra are: Frances
McCorkle, trumpet; Bobby Langston,
piano; Grover Anderson, saxaphone;
Buddy Sheorn, drums, and BUI Burns,
sax.
*%ooks a hit crowded in there, conductorV
addition to many "titaiuandj~i3f civiliansf -wt-
art carrying lots of soldiers and sailors on fur
lough and often entire train-loads of troofs. Yet
the Seaboard is doing its best to make all passengers
as comfortable as possible.
^*0kay, conductor! We folks who are not in the
service are ready to put up with any inconvenience
when we travel these days.
SEABOARD RAILWAY
KEgf OK StTriNOWAt
SONOf AND tTAUn
class nH‘n!k clnh./
Col. M. A. Batenian
Given Promotion
Robins Field, Ga.—Bromotlon of
{.'ol. .Marlin Batt man of Camden,
chi*'! oT ih(' p(*fsmmrT~jnTd'"TrsrtTrhTgr
(llvlsion of Warner Kol)ins Air Service
Coninianii htaidtjuarters here, from
li'Milt nanf colonel was announet'd last
(rf~riTC—' ■wtHtk-Jtf'.JUrjg. Gen. Charles E. Thom-
-«s. .ir. WK.\B^eilYiiliraiidinfrywTStr
('oloiiel Bateman, a native of Cara-
(h'n. is the son of Mrs. Janie R. Bale-
man. ""tOS Chesnnt street, Camden.
.\ graduate of The Citadel at
Charleston, in 1932, Colonel Bateman
recejvfd his commission In the Army
In 1933, and his active commission in
the regular Army In 1938 at Hickam
Field, Hawaii. He received his wings
at San Tontonlo, Texas. He is at
present rated a.s a senior pilot, an
aerial observer, bombadier, gunner
and photographer.
The 33year-old colonel Is married
to the former Miss Frances Taylor.
They have two children. M. A., Jr., six
years old. and Jane Ellen, two years
oul. They reside at WarneroRobtns,
near Robins Field.
Be Quick To Treat
Bronchitis
Chronic bronchitis may develop if
your cough, chest cold, or acute bron
chitis is not treated and you cannot af
ford to take a chance with any me(jicine
less potent than Creoinulsion which
poos right to the seat of the trouble to
help loosen at id expel germ laden
phlegm and aid naturii ,to sooihe and
Leal raw, tender, inflamed bronchial
uiuc.ms membranes.
Crcomul.slon blends beechwood creo
sote by speClarprooes.^ w’ith other tniiov
tested ni< ■.hciiies for coughs. It contains
nor.arcctico.
No nia;;-:r liow many medicines ycfu
have trnid, tell your druf ri.4 to .sell you
a bfjttLc of Creomulslon wUh tbe under
standing you mu;;t like the way it Q>jiick-
IV aUays the cough, permitting rest and
deep, or you are to liave your money
back. (Adv.)
1943
$£A$on'$ am
HE STAGE COAC^H has*given place to the stream-
The electric light.haa atiuEed out-th«-soil—-
- •hgatTte^-CRfrdle.—-Tiwkliag slei^h-Lelk .ajp Hrown^H _
in the roar of motor horns. But who will say
that Christmas has lost its charm? With Christ
mas at hand we renew our pledge of devotion to
ideals of honest dealing,^ and express our appre
ciation of your friendship for us during 1943.
1.,
"HEAP ON MORE WOOO, 'THE WIND IS CHILL;
BUT LET IT WHISTLE AS IT WILL,
WE’LL KEEP OUR MERRY CHRISTMAS STILL!”
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