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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1942 the Dewberry sdin- page FIVE The Spectator Recently I saw signs in Greenville and Fountain Inn urging the people to go to church. This campaign may be state-wide, or even nation-wide, though my knowledge of the territor. ial scope is Imited. The very day this came to my attention I read that Governor Jefferies had proclaimed Bible week for the State as pfirt of a National Bible Week. These two calls are somewhat related, but by no means identical. It is desira ble that all should attend Church; and even more to be desired that we should read our Bibles with pious meditation. Our people may be classified, re ligiously, in several groups: 1. Those who support the local church, including its missionary pro gram. 2. Those who attend but do very little toward supporting the work of the Church. 3. Those who contribute, some times substantially, but seldom at tend. 4. Those who retain a membership in the old home Church and think well of the church, but don’t attend or contribute, except, perhaps, to clean up the old Church cemetery.. 5. Then there are those who are not members of any Churh and who regard all of us in the Church as hypocrites, and say so frequently. Those of us who are in the Church are not perfect; in fact the Church exists for us imperfect specimens who have many of the weaknesses of the flesh. The Church is for sinners, just as the Master came to call sin ners, not the righteous to repentence. If any one is too righteous to as sociate with sinners the Church is no place for him. The Son of Man, however, was “A friend of publicans and sinners.” The highest reason for Church at tendance is to tone up one’s self, spiritually, through the religious ex ercises. But every man who believes in doing his part, in carrying his own load, should be identified with the Church because without our re ligious congregations a community would not be a desirable place of residence or business. Certainly I appreciate the good work, the fine service, of trade bodies, for I speak every week on behalf of a state-wide organization of business, yet I should be a very uninformed man if I did not concede the primacy of the Church in the development even of business. Our business is based on mutual confidence; sometimes the carrying out of a business obligation involves a heavy loss. The faithful execution of such a trust requires a high degree of unselfishness. That is the very foundation of the Church —that a man look beyond selfish gratification. So the Church, with whatever its short-comings, is doing foundational work for humanity. Now as to Bible Week: The su preme reason for reading it, in the quiet and peace of retirement, is to learn how Jehovah deals with Bis people, and the plan . of Salvation We can’t be indifferent to that, for the large cemeteries all about us remind us of those who once as hear ty and vigorous as we are; just as full of hopes and ambitions; and . just as exuberant in the joy of living Perhaps a “mute ingloirous Milton. . . . Some Cromwell guiltless of his Country’s blood” are found in many a neglected spot. If, however, one is so full of the present, that only the wisdom as in The Book? Our Presi dent has been criticised by men of affairs because he insists on having so much of the administration of our great government pass trough his hands. Yet this very problem was one which troubled Moses and was solved for Moses by his father-in-law, Jethro, who told hm to delegate au thority and build up an efficicient ad ministration. There may be some who plan a me of ease and enjoyment, indulging the whims and tastes of long fancy. The Book tells of a experiment which was made, one of the most illuminating experiments in life and self-gratifi cation ever recorded. And it tells us of the conclusions of the man, after the fires of youth had burnt out, and The Sunday School For Such A Time As This By Paul Stewart Pastor First Baptist Church Pelzer, S. C. TAXPAYER’S NOTICE Save 1 per cent by paying Town taxes during October. Buy Bonds and Stamps! Herman S. Langford, Mayor D. L. Nance, Clerk & Treas. Y Yes, indeed, it is a World of Com fort to know that your valuables are safe from loss by fire or theft.... You get Complete protection in a Safetv Deposit Box in our vault and the cost per year is surprisingly small. Plan today to have a safe place for the Bonds of Freedom you have been buying and will continue to buy.. .We will be glad to tell you all about Safety Deposit Boxes. The SOUTH CAROLINA NATIONAL BANK The Sunday School has one of the grandest opportunities to witness to the saving and keeping power of God. We are living in such times that the world has never seen before. One of the great preachers of today said that he had rather be living and serving now than any other period of the world’s history. If our Sunday schools ever needed to teach the Bible, bring the lost to Christ, and develop Christians, it is today. We will help to save ourselves and the cause of liberty throughput the world in proportion we give our selves to the doing of God’s will. We ought to do all we can to help those who remain at home and those who are being- called to the armed forces. At the present our country needs much physical and material equip ment, but our greatest need is moral and sipiritual. “If God be for us, who can be against us?’’ As I see it, in an hour like this, the supreme need of the world is Jesus. 1. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL’S OP PORTUNITY Because of the nature of its organ ization and its inluence probably the Sunday School touches more people than any other organization of the church. Some one said that the Sun day School is the world’s greatest layman movement. In days like these it has a great opportunity of render ing service to the saved and the un saved. Great men have witnessed to the value of the Bible and the Sunday School as a means of teaching it. Note what some of them have said: “If American democracy is to re main the greatest hope of humanity it must continue abundently in the faith of the Bible.”—Calvin Coolege. ‘Personaly I know what the Sun day school can do. All the best train ing I ever had was in the Sunday School.”—Loyd George. “As president of the United States I face many problems. I will find right solution for them in proportion as I sit at the feet of Jesus and learn from the Book of books.”— Woodrow Wilson. “No study is more important than the study of the Bible. There is no more effective agency for such study than the Sunday School.”—Woodrow Wilson. “I know of no other work that be gins to compare with the results that are attained by the Sunday School.” —John Wannamaker. II. QUALIFICATIONS OF ITS LEADERS 1. Twice-born men and women who love God and hate sin. 2. Magnify Bible and prayer. 3. Spirit filled and led. The old preacher was right when he said in his prayer, “Lord, I need not go and preach unless you lead and bless.” 4. Not only teach the Book, but live it. Edgar Guest said that, he had rather see a sermon any day than to hear one. 6. Lover of souls. The main business of the church is to bring lost souls to Christ. If the church is not evangelistic is it either not a New Testament Church or it is in a backslidden condition. Evange lism is the great need of the world. It will make and keep the world Christian. If the sixteen million dollars spent yearly had been used in evangelizing the world we would not have to be sending our boys overseas today. HI. TODAY’S CHALLENGE Because of the conditions of the times the challenge is greater. Hard times have always given Christians their greatest opportunities to wit ness for the Lord. It is in time of war that soldiers come to the front. It is in days of darkness and corruption that God’s people must prove them selves the light of men, the salt of the earth. Let us faithfully witness for Christ wherever we are and whatever we do. A teacher was gently chided by the (Continued o n Page Eight) the calm reflection of mellow age put all his life and strivings in prop er perspective. The wondrous beauty of the Psalms would repay frequent reading, even if beauty were the only considera tion. This Book has sustained men and women in all the hardships and perils of life; and it has been like a great beacon in the darkest days of a Na tion’s history. Most men enjoy reading of the great men, especially of those men whose life and labors reach from the long ago down to our day. Of all men few have had a wider influence than Martin Luther. He seemed to find special help in the 46th Psalm “Why art thou cast down, O my Soul?” And Savonarola made the 143rd Psalm his prayer—“Show me the way to walk in, for I lift up my soul unto thee.” Our canny Benja min Franklin, perhaps the outstand ing example of American genius, en joyed reassurance in his hard early life by remembering the 37th Psalm, which his father often emphasized “Yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken nor his seed begging bread.’ Saints and sinners, men of tras- cendent accomplishment, and hum ble, modest, timid Mothers have found new strength in The Book. In this day of vitamins, can anyone cal culate the stimulating and invigor ating force of the Scriptures? The Bible puts us in touch with what Dr. Carrel speaks of as the inexhausti ble motive *power that spins the uni verse. One cotton mill is worth more to South Carolina than a dozen air fields. When peace comes again most airfields will have that spectral appearance of the remains of camps of the First World War; a cotton mill, however, has its payroll every week, every month, every year; sure ly, steadily contributing to the de velopment and enrichment of the State. Moreover, it is using the pro duct of our soil and thus affords em ployment for thousands of producers. In principle, this is true also of the cotton seed oil mills, the pulp mills— and all other manufacturing enter prises, notably the fine investments of Hartsville & Sumter. South Caro lina may soon abound in forts, camps, airfields, docks and depots, but in time of peace they will be worth very little to us. We need in dustries, constant payrolls, with the market or our home products afford ed by processing plants. Let us keep that before us and try to bring industries to South Carolina. asking for money, w e should try to find the way to reduce the appro priations fifty per cent. Of course it is impossible to convince any in stitution of that, just as many are not convinced today about the need to conserve tires. Winthrop College will ask for $400,000, we are told in the press. The same papers tell us that Win- throp’s enrollment is 14 per cent off. And the papers tell us that the States should forego some of their sources of revenue, in order that the National Government may use those sources for the supreme war efort. Even if the people buy a billion dollars of bonds every month, the Nation must collect three times that much more in order to finance the war. I don’t know anything about the needs of our institutions, nor need we worry about them ;we have a call for money to provide tanks, planes and ships for men in the ser vice, and that call can’t be put off. If necessary, we can rebuild every in stitution we have, when peace comes; but the State should be ready to cut every public expense to the quick. We may not wish to do so; and a thousand reasons may be given for building, more buildings, expanding, developing—and all the other symp toms of normal times; but all the reasons and arguments crash before the awful fact that we are not yet winning the war. Just as the indi viduals must pull in their belts and buy bonds, so might the State do well to retire its own bonds and in vest every available dollar in War Bonds. Instead of any institution When the General Assembly cre ates a public service it may have to define minutely its organisation, methods and jurisdiction. So often I have referred to our habit of cre ating new agencies without regard to those we already have that I grow weary of the theme. But to point out weakness within an organization or a poor plan of procedure is even less pleasant. I am thinking of our South Carolina Industrial Commis sion. The Commission was created in 1926 and has five members. The five members seem to act as five separate and individual commission ers. The tfnly reason for any Com mission is that the members shall act together and that the deciions or awards shall be the judgment of the Commission. The awards should be announced at a regular meeting of the Com mission, let us say Monday of each week, and the announcement should be by the Chairman and somewhat on this order: The case of John Doe, an employee of the Moonbean Manufac turing Company of Spartanburg, claiming an award because of in juries alleged to have been suffered in the course of his employment, was investigated by Commissioner Rich ard Ex and his report to the Com mission shows that the petitioner did suffer a broken thumb and a mashed finger, all of which was duly proved, and the Commissioner recommends an award of present wages and medi cal attention, with a cash payment of $100. The entire Commission con- cursin that and the Commission’s judgment will be entered accordingly. The petitioner was represented by X.Y.Z. of Spartanburg. All these judgments or awards should be kept in such form as to be available to the press, as are the de cisions of the Supreme Court. But if the Commission should follow a prac tice of having one Commissioner take the case, by request of petitioner’s attorney, and make awards, the whole purport of the Act would be vitiated. It is the Commission of five men which should act and their act should be a matter of record showing how each Commissioner voted and the name of the attorney appearing before the Commission. I do not exaggerate in saying that there is state-wide dissatisfaction with the practices of the Industrial Commission. Employers pay heavy liability insurance rates because of high awards; and labor is dissatis fied because high per centages of at torneys’ fees take too much away from the injured man. Labor surrendered its claim for punitive damages by accepting the Workmen’s Compensation Act, which the Industrial Commission adminis ters. It understood that the Act would result in prompt and adequate measurer for the relief of an injured worker. Since that time certain prac tices have developed which do not command the sympathetic endorse ment of either employers or workers. If this Workmen’s Compensation Act operates neither to the satisfaction of Labor nor Management what is wrong? Now if the Commission will publish a statement of cases decided since January, indicating the nature of the injury, the amount of the award, the allowance for attorneys’ fees and other set-ofs, such as debts due to the attorney, some progress will be made. Then let the name of the attorney appear, as the Supreme Court does. An award like this: “Injury to hand $300; permanent dis figurement (scar) $1,000; attorney’s fee $500; P.D.Q. Attorney for peti tioner,” America’s automotive service men are play- |Ing an important part In the nation’s war effort. It Is their job to "save the wheels that serve America.” The Automotive Mechanic of Yesterday Is the VICTORY SERVICE MAN of Today Help him to help you "SAVE THE WHEELS THAT SERVE AMERICA” by getting a skilled sery/ce check-up regularly Take the word of millions: MORE PEOPLE GO TO CHEVROLET DEALERS FOR SERVICE than to any other dealer organization Just hew important the auto motive mechanic’s work is to- the nation will be clear to all who consider the following facts*: • Automobiles and trucks form fhe sole practicable means of transpor tation for war workers and war materials in many communities throughout America. • In some sections, 78% to 100% of the workers drive by automobi'e to vital war plants. • 2,314 U. S. cities, with a popu lation of 12,524,000, depend on private cars for transportation; 54,000 communities depend en tirely on motor vehicles. • Sixoutof every ten farms use one car or more; 67% of farm car mileage is necessity driving. • More than 65.2% of all war plants reporting in Michigan (a typical war production state) depend on trucks to haul their incoming and outgoing freight. • Trucks haul nearly 100% of the milk supply of most large cities— and 58% of all livestock marketed in the U. S. • Trucks are the sole transportation system serving our 54,000 com munities not reached by railroads. The automotive mechanic—the trained Chevrolet Victory Service Man—is the lifeguard of America's millions of cars and trucks. Help him to help you and America by getting a ski'led service check-up at regular intervals. *AII statements based on ■ *• x>rfs compiled oy the Michigan State « ^ Highway Department and the Statistical Department of A. M. A. HEADQUARTERS FOR VICTORY SERVICE ON ALL MAKES OF CARS AND TRUCKS Davis Motor Company 1515-17 MAIN ST. NEWBERRY, S. C. .. .You can spot it every time Y OUTH, in everything it does, goes for the people and things that are “right”. That’s why youth goes for ice-cold Coca-Cola. It is “right”... in quality... in taste ... and in refreshment. It’s the drink that belongs to \ youth’s ritual of refreshment. And there’s reason for this. Ice-cold Coca-Cola has what it takes ... a clean fresh taste... un mistakable refreshment. A special blend of K flavor-essences merges all the who'esome in- gredients of Coca-Cola into an origin.. ;te of its own. Noonecan duplicate it. The o.ily thing like Coca-Cola is Coca-Cola itself. Coca-Cola or, to use its abbreviation. Coke, and you’re in for some thing special in delicious re freshment. Contentment comes when you connect with a Coke. It’s natural for popular names to acquire friendly abbreviatio.is. That’s why you hear Coca-Cola called Coke. Coca-Cola and Coke mean the same thing... the real thing... “coming from a single source, and well known to the community”. plus tax The best is always the better buy! The custom in every neighborhood... to enjoy deli, clous ice-cold Coca-Cola ... though not as often in war time as before. And remember when you sometimes can’t get Coca-Cola, it’s because Coke, being first choice, sells out first. BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY NEWBERRY COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY