Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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/ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1942 -’'‘T — PAGE FIVE GIRL SCOUTS I hope you missed our Scout news last week. Our meeting had to be held too late in the week to get the news to the paper. But here we are this time with twice as much. On Tuesday night, January lOth. we welcomed eight new girls into our troop. They are mighty nice girls and we’re happy to have them with us. We had the usual roll call, the minutes were read and approved. Since Mrs. Kinard was attending another meeting she came in late. But we had prayer after she arrived and then she gave us a fine talk on what Scouting really should mean to us. It helped us as much as the new girls. Mrs. Hawkins talked to the new scouts and explained to them what we do in our Troop. One part of her message went like this: “Our Church teaches us Christianity and that comes before anything else— even Scouting. Scouting teaches us Americanism.” That is’’ right, too, for Americanism means high ideals of living. All officers of the troop had a word or two for the new mem bers and then we enjoyed a social hour with refreshments served by the officers. 1 Classified Ads • i CERESAN—Get yours now and treat your seed early. JOHNSON- McCRACKIN, CO. 16-4t LOST—Pair of pink tortoise shell glasses. F’inder please notify or return to Louise Purcell. Prepared po assist you in filing your income tax return, federal and state. Mrs. A. H. Counts, 1Z45 Hunt street, Phone 414-M. LOST— Yellow and black spotted Beagle bitch on Whitmire highway. Answers to name of Bet, Name of owner on collar. |5 reward if re turned to B. ROSS WILSON, on Cut-Off Road. STRAYED from our place, pne black shoat, weighing about 75 or 80 pounds. Left Tuesday and anyone seeing or knowing the where abouts of this shoat, please call 93-W or notify Geo. E. Stone. 2t TRESPASS NOTICE — Trespassing of any kind is hereby forbidden on the lands of the undersigned. Hunt ing is expressly forbidden and all violators will be dealt with. L. E. HAVIRD, Newberry, S. C. 4tp FOR SALE—Lot of nice atovewood and firewood-pine and hardwood. H. C. Holloway. 24-31 LOST—Probably on Main street in Newberry, 1 $10 bill, 1 $5 bill, and several $1 bills. Reward if found and returned to H. W. Lominick, Pomaria, S. C. FOR SALE—One complete amateur photography outfit. Camera, lights, enlarger and darkroom equipment. Edward Davis, 705 Wardlaw, New berry, S. C. 9-3tp JoRtlievt Misery (Phes I Keep the Home Fires i. * \*«% • _ a # -tung l G&namkjo&f&kX* C. T. Summer, Inc. Then again on Monday, January 26th, we held our usual meeting with the same procedure. Mrs. Kin ard, our Chaplain, read to us .’.rom the Book of James, and the scripture was what we all need to remember. It said that we should be careful of the words we speak—that our ton gues san say such evil things that can never be recalled. Then she prayed a beautiful prayer. We finally collected our Red Cross donation and Sadie Kibler was ask ed to take it to the office. Maybe it is family pride or some thing, but when some one says something nice about you it really makes you feel good, doesn’t it? Mrs. Kinard told us some mighty nice things that Mr. Thomas, the manager at Mollohon, said about our Scout Troop. We appreciate this very much. We are learning a new song—“We Did It Before, and We Can Do It Again”. Those Japs had better re member that, too. Elizabeth Willis, Scribe. TREES AVAILABLE UNDER aAA CONSERVATION PLAN The 1942 Agricultural Conswva- tion Program makes it doubly easy for a landowner to plant forest trees on some of his idle and eroding lands this winter, County Agent P. B. Ez ell suggests. “In the first place, this program sets up a separate soil-building al lowance of $15 to be earned only by planting trees for each farm covered by a work sheet”, the agent says. “Payment is made on the basis of $5.00 an acre upon which at least 1000 trees, regularly spaced, are planted. By planting three acres, all of the $15 special allowance can be used. “In the second place, the Agricul tural Adjustment Administration has entered into contract with the State Commission of Forestry whereby th# Commission will furnish forest tree seedlings to the landowner at $1.80 a thousand delivered to nearest ex press office, as a grant-in-aid similai to programs that have been in pro gress with respect to lime and super phosphate during the pa&t several years.” Trees available under this pro gram, the Forestry Commission an nounces, include loblolly, slash and long-leaf pines, and black locust. Landowners desiring trees should make aplication at the county AAA offices as soon as possible. The con tract under which trees are now available will expire February 28, therefore, deliveries must be mad* prior to this date. PEANUT GROWERS TO BE ENCOURAGED BY FED. FUNDS Washington, Feb. 2.—Chairman Fulmer (D-S.C.) of the house agri culture committee said today the agriculture department had assured him it would amend rules of the soil conservation program to encourage Southern farmers to plant more peanuts this year. The department is calling for a three-fold expansion of the *942 peanut crop in an effort to produce more vegetable oil to offset short ages caused by the war. Formerly considerable quantities of vegetable oils had been imported from the Philippines. Peanut oil is considered an ideal substitute for imported varieties. Fulmer said the agriculture de partment also would make arrange ments to furnish peanut seed at the lowest price possible and payable out of the 1942 crop. “This should prove very helpful to farmers in the way of an addit ional income and especially those farmers residing in the crop failure areas,” the South Carolinian said. At the last census manufactures, the annual production of radios for police use was approximately 5,000 sets. Faster Oil Change For Big A irliners Maybe you’ve wondered how the huge engines of air transport lines get their oil changed. This is a job that often calls for top speed and Mr. Paysinger, local agent for the Sinclair Refining Company, says that it is now done four times fast er than usual by a newly invented Aircraft On Truck. The truck, he reports, is a spe cially designed streamlined vehicle that scoots in under the nose of a big airliner and does a double- barreled job. It drains used oil out of one engine while it pumps fresh oil into the other engine. Servicing is a highlight at La- Guardia Field New York’s famous municipal airport where hundreds of planes arrive and depart daily. The sight of a big American Air lines Flagship gliding down to a stop on the runway and this little Sin clair truck dashing in to give it a fast oil drain and refill is reported to be a feature event for visitors. The truck, according to Mr. Pay- singer, can maneuver under planes in the huge hangars, too, without chance of damage to wings or pro pellers. He also says that an Am erican Airlines flagship uses almost 200 quarts of Sinclair Pennsylvana Motor Oil for one refiill, more oil than the average motorist uses in his car in half a dozen years. THE NEWBERRY SUN FORESEES SIX MORE WEEKS OF COLD Quarryville, Pa., Feb. 2.—The pro phetic groundhog saw his shadow today and Quarryville’s slumbering groundhog lodge promptly advised the United States government that six more weeks of cold, snowy weath er lie ahead. “Please tell Hitler,” the lodge wrote the war a nd navy departments. Asserting this is no time for cen sorship of such valuable information, lodge officials dispatched their fore cast as soon as the most trusted pro phet, 80-year-old Manassas D. Mont gomery, returned from a trip to the best groundhog hole in Lancaster his shadow, Manassas pointed out. And that, to all true followers means there will be six weeks of bad weath er. The lack of a shadow would have presaged an early spring. The lodge received the prophet’s information in solemn conclave over a cider barrel. Hibernating Governor George W. Hensel, Jr., wrapped in seven layers of clothing, (he had a cold too) accepted the report and directed the communique to the governor. KENDALL MILLS LUTHERAN county. Ordinarily the entire lodge treks into the hollows, clad in top hats and long white night shirts, but this year some of the higher authorities were ill with a cold and Manassas made the trip alone. He actually didn’t see the groundhog, but being an old trapper he could tell from the markings around the hole that the animal crawled out between 11 and 11:30 a. m., and went back. The sun was shining at that time so the groundhog most certainly saw The Rev. J. B. Harman, Pastor Bethany: Sunday 10 a. m., Sunday School. Mr. E. B. Hite, Supt. 11 a. m., Chuich Worship followed by Luther League. Summer Memorial: SuntJay 10 a. m., Sunday School. Mr. M. E. Shealy, Supt. 6 p. m., Motion Picture Program conducted by Dr. Erland Nelson. 7 p. m.. Church Worship. Visitors are invited to attend all of these services. The Wars of the Lord BY THE REV. C. A. CALCOTE (We are publishing the below at the request of a non-member of this pastor’s chucrh, who, hearing the sermon thought it should Ije given where more people could benefit from it—Ed.) (Numbers 21:14) God teaches: “Love your enemies . . . Thou shalt not kill.” War teaches: “Hate your enemies . . . Slay them.” We are confronted with a strange and different dilemma when the teachings of God seemingly conflict with the teachings of the State. What shall we do? What of this “righteous war” question? Which side does God fight on? Can war be outlawed ? Does God command me to fight? These questions be wilder the average mind, and the most of us go on theorizing and guessing about them, with conse quence of there being a great deal of muddled thinking about these profound phases of God’s business in war. No mere minister has the answers to all the questions about our God’s business, which often times moves in a “mysterious way, His wonders to perform.” We do, however, have His Book in which His nature is revealed. The Book refers to “. . . The wars of the Lord” a s if to put God directly in the war business. But do not let us misinterpret “His wonders to per form.” We believe God is yet ac tive and also communicative with His people today, in deeds if not in words. God has not deserted this world. Said Cromwell: “What are all our histories but God manifest ing, that He hath shaken down and trampled under foot whatsoever He hath not planted?” The great things of God’s world have never perished. The purifying love of country, hatred of tyranny, the sense of justice, the desire to do good to one’s fellowman, the scorn of mean ness and wickedness, belief in the soul, belief in God, belief in the hope of immortality,—these things have never died nor disappeared, even in the darkest ages. “Truth crushed to earth shall rise again, The eternal years of God are hers; While error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies amid her worshippers.” All wars, overthrows, defeats, dis asters, martyrdoms, Gethsemanes and Calvaries do but sway the fu ture. The tide always turns again. And history marches on under the oversight and direction of a benefi cent God. Today, the pyramids of French cannon, and cannon balls, that you see piled up before the Kremlin at Moscow show the high watermark of Napoleon’s career of conquest. God’s silent hoar frost, under the command of “General Winter” attests, in one way, to the manner of how God gets into the war business of history. Indeed God’s stars in their courses do fight against the Siseras of this world. But whose prayers does God ans wer to determine the side on which He fights? All the way from early tribal wars down through history to this world-war, each tribe or na tion has prayed to the same God, or whatever god one may have, to bless his side with victory. Is God there fore “put on the spot” or teased in to a split-personality that he should side with the Germans, Italians. French, Russians, British, Japanese, Americans and Chinese, so that He becomes a war-general with His full omnipotence for every side? Or will He hear and answer only the pray ers of one chosen side? The ans- er is NO. God cannot be pressed into the mold of a tribal god as the early pagans thought; or as mod ern pagans think. God will be the God of the Germans, Russians, Ital ians, Japanese, British, Chinese, Americans—all, a nd not necessarily fight on the side of any one parti cularly chosen group. How, for in stance, can one prove that we Am ericans have a monopoly on Jehovah and His heavenly host? Ono cer tainly wouldn’t try to base his proof on the way in which Americans support the Church that “Chnst lov ed and gave Himself for.” Or on the way we support missions. The peo ple of the earth are all God’s child ren. Nowhere has God said any thing about favoring “white people” above other colors. All have been made in His image. He is the God of all. Whether they appreciate and respond to it, is another matter. But, like a wise earthly father, He will not necessarily “take sides” with one child so that the other will be des troyed. Let us begin to get our terms straight. Does God personally com mand us to fight the Japanese, Ger mans, Italians, or vice versa? No! No wise father commands his child ren to fight one another. God can not divide Himself among His chil dren, so that the children will be more divided, and slain. How could God be a dozen tribal deities at once? So let us try to wrest our selves from these dilemmas without doing violence tb God’s nature and justice. We have two propositions before us: (1) In obeisance to civil laws, as God teaches, we must go to war and fight our enemies. (2) God does not command us to fight anyone, not even our enemies. But WHEN AND IF man persists in his will to sin, and disobey God’s law, even of the moral universe; while at the same time, and all the time, God persists in His will toward peace, harmony, love, and good will among men, there comes the inevitable clash and breakdown of God’s divine nego tiations with man’s worldly negotia tions. That clash means war. fhe first clash meant the driving out of man from the Garden of Eden by God. Man is still outside that Gar den in his continual disobedience to God’s laws. And there shall be wars and rumors of wars until man learns to obey God, the Maker of this ani- verse, and the Father of all man kind. As long as there is wholesale disobedience among peoples and na tions, you can no more “out-law” war than you can “out-law” man, who is guilty of this disobedience. Now, when war comes as a direct result of the break-down of “nego tiations” between man and God’s law, WAR BECOMES ONE OF GOD’S JUDGMENTS, a natural con sequence, upon those who have flout ed and broken righteous laws. Theo logy supports this. Being one of God’s judgments, God becomes the JUDGE over His judgements, and cannot be dragged in by a mere prayer of one side to help them out in a hell-debacle. Using Morrison’s phraseology in the Christian Cen tury, God does not command us to fight, He CONDEMNS us to fight. A righteous court judge does not personally command a young man to go to the electric chair. He CON DEMNS him to go to the electric chair; for he, the judge, represents and speaks for a righteous law that has been violated and ; ignored in the life of that young man. So with God, the righteous Judge of nations. War is God’s judgment on a sinful human race. Judgment on man’s disobedience. War is not man’s dis- obedience, but the result of man’s disobedience. War is sin’s pay-day. War is Hell. Hell is sin’s pay-day. War is sin’s day of wrath. And when God’s judgments fall, they fall on the. just and unjust. The only right eousness one can attribute to "ly war, “just” or “unjust”, being ag ed by Christians or non-Christians, is in the fact that war is a judgment of God, and “God’s judgments are altogether righteous”. In this present war, God is say ing something to us. He has call ed us, along with others, to His judgment seat to hear the verdict: “Guilty”. Guilty of leaving God out of our national interests. Guilty of appropriating God-given blessings for selfish interests. Guilty of this rising tide of na tional crime. Guilty of a rising tide of intemper ance. Guilty of being too busy to attend God’s business. Guilty of turning our back on the shed blood of Christ and His church. Guilty of trying to repeal the law of the Sabbath. Guilty of hoarding our riches while the world starves for food and the Gospel. Guilty of secularizing the hearts and lives of our young people. Guilty of church apostaey. Guilty of sinning a way 1942 years of oportunity to Christianize the nations we are now condemned to fight. Guilty of eating and drinking and making merry instead of soberly be lieving “The field is the world” for - ■ our missions. ' Guilty of continued desertiow of Paradise instead of devoutly en deavoring to regain it. GUILTY! And God’s condemnation is that we must fight. Ju/t and the unjust. I did my bit in the last world war. I’m willing to do more than my bit to help win this war. But I do not want to be guilty'of praying a blank et prayer to my God to give us vic tory. We got that in the last war, but it didn’t count. I don’t want to merely pray for “peace, peace!’’, when maybe there is no peace. We got “peace” at Versailles out of the last war, but it wasn’t worth having. I must fight as one under God’s judgment for being guilty of not sharing my Christ with my neigh bors to eleminate the necessity of having to fight them. I want vic- I tory, indeed, but it must be a right eous victory. I want peace, indeed, but if it isn’t a Christian peace it will not be worth fighting for, and no better than the last. I want to help preserve my Democracy, but I also want my Democracy to help preserve the world. My prayer must be nothing but a prayer of repent ance for sin. How have I obligated God to fight on my side ? But we must fight. And the soon er we finish with this grizzly blood business of packing hand-grenades into the mouths of our “enemies” and disemboweling our “brothers” with our swords, the better we san trek our way back to the Garden of Eden, from whence God expelled us. While we are truly repenting, let us ask God about His mercy. The day of wrath has come. “To your tents, O Israel!” Good News for Thrifty Savers • ? V '<$ yy The New 1942 Spring & Summer CATALOG Ready for Your Inspection America's Greatest Values lor Spring 194S SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO. Caldwell St. CATALOG ORDER OFFICE Phone 430 Carpenter’s SPRING CLOTHES SAY- “COLOR, To Cheer A Uniform-Clad World!” New colorful Suits, Coats, and Ac cessories are arriving daily to make you look your prettiest! Come today, or any day soon, to choose yours. They’re really beautiful-soft, warm colors, nice tailoring, detail and value. We’re expecting you! Carpenter’s