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» .. I»A«E EOUM $lfr (Sawbim ffilfranirU 1109 North Broad Street ■ Camden, S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY DaCOSTA BROWN Publisher SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: AH Subscriptions Payable In Advance One Year 12.00 Six Months 1.00 - - • * Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Camden, S. C. All articles submitted for publication must be signed by the author. Fnday, AugusI 1944 IMPROVED' UNIFORM INTIRNATiONAL UNDAYI cHooL Lesson ^ HAROLD L. LVHDqUIST. D. D. Of Tte Moot^ Bibt* Instihit* of Chlcafo. TM»ma»d l>r WMttre M«wtp«p«r Unloo. s THE ALTAR OF SACRIFICE When I went into the great church on Fifth Avenue, where I go to pray ifor the solution of any problem that harasses me, it was early on D-Day. Even then I was not alone in the Gothic stillness. Worshippers were before me, kneeling in silent prayer. I looked up at the great stained glass window that glow ed with living blue as the morning sun struck it. It seemed like a promise of the eternal beauty of an earned peace. As I knelt, there eame to me the realization of a fact I had not fully sensed. To see promise of beauty and peace— I had to look across the altar of sactrifice. So it was on D-Day. So it is today. The altar of sacri fice is not always an altar of marble. It may be—it is, ii many homes—^the altar of the human heart, giving sadly but freely its most cherished possessions. Only as we are willing to sacrifice ourselves for the right can that right prevail. Our boys overseas are giving their all for us for a belief that tyranny, oppression, persecu tion are denials of the '-Fatherhood of God and the Brother hood of man in which—no' matter what their creed—^they all believe. They are not divided by creed. They are not sep arated by class, or national background. They are just our boys fighting for us and for our way of life—that creed of democracy which holds that all men are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights —^to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. They are giving their all—^thelr futures, their hopes, their dreams, their lives.. Those who come back will not be the same for they will have passed through the refiner’s fire. They will have become so accustomed to death, that it will be hard for them to face life. They will have laid their youth as a sacrifice upon the altar. It Is for us rather who remain at home to see that that sacrifice is not in vain—^that beyond the altar may be built the mosaic of beauty—the deep blue of peace, the clear rose of a world free from war-^a mosaic through which the sun may ever freely shine. Let us pray as we all did on D-Day. Let us also resolve in 4hat„this time the sacrifice will not be in vain!—By Ruth Taylor. ' ^ - GRINDSTONE BLUES ^ Uncle Sam’s agriculture forecasters are in optimistic mood. Not only are big grain crops predicted, but a good hay crop seems assured. Few realize that grass is the most valuable farm crop in the nation. This year’s crop is estimated at one hundred million tons. Today grass is cut with power machinery. Not too long ago hand power harvested the hay crop. It’s probably going too far to say that a man isn’t completely educated unless he has turned a grindstone for half an hour on a hot summer’s day when the “ole swimman’ hole’’ was insistently calling. Many a man, as he holds a scythe or mowing machine blade against the turning stone and listens to a lad’s grumbyings, remembers with a half rinfle the years gone by when he was the boy on the upturned crate pushing the handle* round and round. There’s something about turning a grindstone which makes people smile—all except the boy who furnishes the power. Most farmers rather like the process—wheel turn ing in its own orbit always has held a fascination—whether grindstone, millwheel, or turbine. To feel the smooth stone putting an edge on steel is deeply satisfying to the one who •will cut the grass. But to a 12-year-old who does the crank ing, first wttlrone hand, then the other, turning the old "grinds •tone behind the milkhouse is a job which rates even lower than weeding strawberries.—Christian Science Monitor. Lesson (or August 6 Lmmb Mbjceta aaS Scrlptur* tnti m> iMTtwl and pMorrlchtad hj InternaUot^ CouBcO ot RriSkma Kdaeattoo: uatd hr {MmlMtOO. POWER THROUGH SELF-OISCI- PUNE (TEMPERANCE LESSON) UNUSUAL FORESIGHT A low-country farmer, .who has suffered heavy casual ties to his labor from the war, was in Columbia not long ago and told of an instance of unusual foresight on the part of two of his erstwhile hands, who had gone off to get some of the “aoft dough.’’- _ .i . _ They came to him and asked if he would take them back on the place and advance them loans to make their own crops. He .asked them why they want^ to come back to the farm when they were making a loUmore money than he could pay them. They admitted they were mSking big pioney but said they knew the war would not last forever and if it ended in the middle of a crop year they would be broke and have nothing to do, so they wanted to get back on the farm before somebody else took the places. It is not usual that these people look so far into the future with such seeing eyes. JUNIOR DIPLOMAT A car containing a grandaddy, a mama and a four-year- old daughter stopped to pick up two unifomied young men at a highway intersection. “We always like to pick up soldiers and sailors,” said the grandaddy when the boys began to express their appre ciation. “This time,” said one of the service men, “you got a couple of marines.” That’s all that was said. The four-year-old gazed at them in silence while the car traveled about the distance of a city block, then she burst into song: “Prom the halls of Montezuma to the shoreh of Tripoli And we’re proud to bear the ti-hi-tul of United States marinV’’ The marines were not offended.—^The State. In these MDcertai^ days if you do not know what to count on you can atill count on your fingers. The bank of safety pays 100 pep cent and never fails: “ A wife te a p^on who gets so mad at her husband Ae cries on his should^. LESSON te; miab 3S:5-10; I Corlnthtani I ■alonlAiu B:2X. oou«( nxr-Aad TOMn.-Jbgt ■trhrvtb for Om mastery te temperate to all thtoss.—1 Cortototens 1:11. Discipline •— that word doesn’t sound exactly attractive, does UT It makes us think of 'punishment for wrongdoing, when in reality it is a very helpful word vdiich means teaching. Disciples learn, and thui are disciplined, so that life becomes safer, simpler, and more efficient. When the Morro Castle caught fire, there was time for everyipne to escape, but 134 out of the iOO on board perished because they fought each other. When the Pibsident Coolidge sank in the South Seas 4,500 soldiers escaped alive. What made the difference? Discipline, that’s all, but it was enough. There-are many kinds of disci pline, and all have their important place in preparing men to live well ordered and useful lives. The dis ciplined life has power to meet trials an4 temptations. We find in our les- s(m three kinds of discipline:'-- l. Home DiseipUne (Prov. 1:7-10). The training received by the child early, in life from its parents is of the utmost importance in forming character. (Thildren should learn the true standard of life, and be held to obedience to them if they are later to walk'in the right way. It ii here that they most .effec tively loam the- danger oif ihft.-uae of intoxicants and the importance of keeping their bodies clean and strong for the service of God and country. Some parents (possibly misled by attractive, but false theories of edu cation) think that the correction or punishment of a child is not to be permitted. They assume that they are being kind to a child by not limiting his development, or trying to direct it. These are the people who “curse their cUldren with ki]^- ness,’’^'wKlch"1a in-faci ^greatest of unkindness. Only a fool (v. 7) will despise the instruction of his parents, and only a fool of a parent wiU fail to give that training which is like “an orna ment of grace” (v. 9) in the life of the young man or woman. But the discipline of the home needs the support of n. Social DUeipUne (Jer. 35:5-10). The social order, which concerns our relation to our feUow men, dis ciplines each of us. It makes many and what sometimes seem burden some demands of us is order that we, as well as those around us, may ^ve pri^ege of living ordered and useful IIvm. Wise is»the man or woman who draws from his fellowship adth oth ers that helpful training vdiich gives him stability and grace. The Rechabites had made a vow that they would not^ drink intoxi cants, and as a tribe" (hey stood by that vow even when tested by Jere miah. (Note that we say tested, not tempted. He knew they would "itsfid:.) ’ “ — Fine family traditions have great value in guiding, and controlling young people. We should, like the good man Jonadab (v. 6), establish a tradition of abstinence from in toxicants which will make all of our descendants say, “No^ one in our family ever drinks,” The training of home and of society has one great goal and .that is m. 8eU-DlsetpUne (I ^r. 9r24-27T I Thess. 5:22). In the life of every one of us there should be that determined purpose that life shall not be Uved in care less disorder,^ or be permitted to run out at loose ends. We are all running a race (v. 24), and it is for us so to run that wa may achieva success. We cannot run with uncertainty (v. 36), wk piust know where we are gofof. We are fighting a fight, and at times it is a desperate, life-ant^ death struggle. We must not beat the air (v. 26), but strike home the telling blows which will bring vio-r tory over our enemies, the world, the flesh, and the devlL To do this calls for training and self-discipline. It means bringing thel body and its demands into sub jection. The man who runs in a race does not destroy his chances for victory by using intoxicants, or othesi dstrimentsi things. Surely we whd run the race for CSirist must be even more determined that self ahalL be disciplined for God’s glory. ^ The standard for the conduct o| the Christian is higher than is comt monly supposed, for he withdrswe himself from "every form of eviL*^- The disciplined believer ksowg that sin is sin—that what looks conn paratively innocent often arears it false face covering real wickedness^ or it is the first step on a downward path. To start on that way is to in- . A faitare o^lj • penon u(ho thought the wotft thinp in life were the tait thtage. vite disaster. A striking example o| this is the social drink—the fa^ion« able cocktail—the friend^ glass, Akstaia is the word—“abstain from, •very form of evil.”- Brooklyn Scoot Pays 'mbnte To Camden Hospitality Rax Bowan Wanta To Return ^ Hare To Hit Vacation. “I don't recall wh^n I have enjoyed being In a community more than the several days I have spent in this beantlful ^nth Carolina city,** laid Rex Bowen, scout and bosineas man* ager of the Brooklyn National League ball club, who with Oeorge Sisier, Wld Matthews and Clyde Bukeforth, were in Camden sponsoring the base ball school for boys at the Camden baH park this week. Bowen arrived here Thnrsday af ternoon and spent Friday In getting the school equipment to the ball park club house. Then he held a sort of baseball court at the corner of Broad and DeKalb streets. For hours the Brookland scout was the center of an ever-changing group of fans, who dis cussed baseball past and present with him. Bowen was delighted that he had been able to get. to Camden for the Junior Legion game and was an In terested spectator of the fracas. "I remember passing through Cam den about three years ago and pass ing your hall park and noting the sign ‘Spring Training Camp of the Toronto Maple Leafs'," he said. “Your baseball plant, even minus a fence, is one of the best we have con ducted our school in this year," he continued. "With such a fine dia mond and outfield baseball should be a popular sport here. My only ciitl- cism and one that does not apply to our school program at all, is that your grand stand and bleachers are located wrong. The stand should have been placed in the northwest angle and the bleachers along the west side. "I'd like to live in Camden,^? he continued. "This getting together on the corner and chinning is quite a novel and most pleasing experience for me. I’d like to see that fellow Lightfoot ride a pbny In a polo game He is a most interesting fellow to talk to. Then ^bere la that venerable b&sSCalT fan, the one they caireff* Doc Bruce. I also enjoyed foat desserta- tlon on golf by your Mr. Muller. Tour Mr. Sheorn Is a nice chap but he waa too busy selling tickets to do much talking to us. I like the fellow Morri son. He is a very droll chap. ‘‘I cannot say enough in apprecia tion of the fine cooperation we receiv ed in Camden. It was a new high In that particular. Coach Pierce, Mr. Robinson, in fact, everyone we came in contact with, went all out to make our stay here interesting and enter taining. Myself and my associates appreciate to the fullest., this -irlendly spirit "I hope that after the war your flue town can return to its place as being Ciqiitain Maddox Womided In France Capt Edward R- Maddox, former- ally of Blaney, who was wounded to France on June 8, and hoepitaUsed In Bngalnd for six weeks fo Cantonment hospital, Mitchell Field, N, T., for 18 days, tt now recuperat ing In the Moort (Jeneral hospital, Swannanoa, N. C. The trip to the Statee was made In a plane which left England Saturday morning, July 16, and arrived in New York the following morning. . Capt. Maddox, a graduate of C!lem- aon college, waa Inducted Into aervlce Feb. 1942. In Jan., 1944, he sailed for or&nfiha and remained in Ihigland un til D-Day, when he with his outfit, the famous Fourths division, crossed the Channel to France. It waa only two days later when be received the wounds. He Is improving nicely now, and relativee here are expecting a vlalt from him soon.. Capt. Ma(|doz’B wife and two soas, have recently returned to their home In Cameron, after having visited Mrs. M. B. Forte, a sister of Capt. Maddox. B. I. and H. H. Maddox of this city, are brothers of Ed. Massabeau Named To Police Dept C. E. Massabeau, a brother of City Councilman Clyde V. Massabeau, has been appointed as a police officer to fill the vacancy caused by the r^lre- ment ot Frank Jones, who IMt the force after 30 years of valiant service. Officer Massabeau has already don ned the uniform of the Camden po lice department Mrs. of Wesfvilfe Passes * Mis. Deesle Smith English <• ^ of W. T. English of Westvliir^S one, died Wednesday momiiis Camden hospital after an • only a few hoars. She was a mh? of Lee Ckmnty but had njuT^ home at Westvflle for the am » years and was the daughter « late Bill and Susan Baker SmS *** Surviving are her husband, ft- sons. W. C. English, WeetvUi?' English, Recel English of LancsSr Dalton English, WestvlUe; twoSt one of the outstanding winter resorts. That is when I want to come back here with my wife and spend several weeks. I cannot conceive of a more enjoyable vacation." ters. Miss Alice English, iilaa English, all of Westvflle, four eri. Walter Smith, Arthnr Henry Smith, of Camden; Lee Rock HlU; two sisters, Mrs q—^ Ontlaw, Colombia; Mra. H. L. aon, Blshopvflll^ and Dve grairf^ dren. Funeral servicea were held fk—. day morning at 11 o’clock froia^ Antioch Baptist chorch, oondnetsd w the Rev. B. S. Davis. Interment W lowed in the church cemetery. ^ DODGER BASEBALL SCHOOL ^ ATTRACTS SCORES OF BOYg (Continued from first page) Richards is a former baseball pu«M of ability and years ago pUyed^ Bishopvllle team that listed Andrews the coach of the pressutA Inmbia Junior Legion team, n ^ Infielder. Richards hlmse'lf wa> inflelder. Dick Junior, who pitches and M first base for the Lancaster Jq^ Is a youngster of promise. He khcM a lot of stuff when he pitched^ Lancaster against Camden week fore last Had he remained h tte game instead of being taken or g permit Reeves of Kershaw, to ifiiZ Lancaster might have won the qh Camden scored 7 miiB off Rente Richards had allowed but four hlh a the seven Innings ha woiked. ^ F«ps/-Q>ls CbrngcNUig, Zbfif litmd CU§, N. T: Fnmclkised Bottlers Pepai-Cola Bottlkig Co,, of Celambiai M Advance First Showing! 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