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THE NEWBERRY SUN Friday, February 25, 1944 STANDARDS OF NEED GIVEN FOR AGED The need for a better understand ing of eligibility for old age assis tance and other types of public aid under the state public welfare law was considered at the meeting of the meeting of dhe Newberry Counly board of public welfare on February 16, 1944. The following explanation was made on behalf of the board by the Chairman, Joe Connelly: “Only persons in actual need are entitled to public assistance under the state law. This means that care ful, impartial investigation of the cir cumstances of all applicants must be made by the county department of public welfare, according to approv ed standards which must be used in all oases. These standards of need were prepared and are periodically revised by a committee of experts in the fields of household and agricul tural economics from Winthrop and Clemson colleges. They show what a resident of South Carolina requires in the way of food, clothing, shelter, medical and dental care, eN-., for a reasonably healthful subsistence. The applicant must give accurate infor mation as to all resources available to him, and every item of available resources must be recorded and filed. “The task of the county depart ment of public welfare is then to find out what is actually available to the applicant and how much addi tional is necessary to meet his needs. This is done by striking a balance between his available resources as shown by investigation and his esti mated needs as determined by the es tablished standards. The difference betwen his available resources and his indicated need is the amount that should be awarded him as assistance. Whether his need can be fully met depends upon the total number of needy persons in the state and the amount of money available from State and Federal sources to meet those needs. Prior to this year it than two-thirds of the indicated need for old age assistance,but during the current fiscal year, because of an increased appropriation, it is possi ble to meet 75 per cent of this need. Appropriations for the needy blind this year are sufficient to meet the full need for assistance, but depen dent children can be given only about 60 per cent of their actual need's as determined by official standards. More adequate funds for dependent children are sorely need ed.” WANT ADS FOR SALE—Stove and fire wood. Coker 100 & 4 in one wilt resistant cotton seed for planting. H. O. Long, Silverstreet, S. C. WANTED—Up to 1000 Cedar Posts, 72 inches long, not less than 3 inches at small end. Give price FOB your place. JOHN B. SCUR RY, Chappells, S. C. PECANS! PECANS! PECANS!— We are still buying pecans, and will be for some time. Shake your trees and bring any kind, any s i ze —we buy every day in the week. Highest market cash prices. R. Derrill Smith, Wholesale Gro cer, Newberry, S. C. LOST—Brown leather bill-fold con taining $28, birth certificate, social security card, tire record, gas stamps and 3 pictures, last Satur day afternoon. Finder please re turn to W. S. Alewine at the Post- office and receive reward. 3tp. WE WILL BUY—Your burlap sacks or any kind of old rags, also scrap iron and other metals. See W. H. STERLING. FOR SALE—Arrostock Maine grown seed Irish Potatoes. Johnson-Mc- Crackin Co. 3tc MAN WANTED for Rawleigh Route in Newberry and Southeast New berry County. Real opportunity. We help you get started. Write Rawleigh’s, Dept. S C B-162-0, Richmond, Va. FOR SALE—Fresh stock field and garden seeds. Johnson-McCi-ackin Co. 3tc AM NOW PREPARED to assist you in filing 1943 Federal and State Income tax returns. If you are entitled to a refund the sooner the return is filed the sooner the re fund is made. Come in today. MRS. A. H. COUNTS, Sun office, Phones 1 or 414-M. AUDITOR’S TAX NOTICE Returns of personal property, new buildings, transfer of real estate, poll and ,road tax, are to be made at the County Auditor’s Office be ginning: January 1, 1944 through February 29, 1944 AU able-bodied male citizens be tween the ages of twenty-one and sixty are liable to $1 poll tax; all persons between the ages of twenty- one and fifty outside of incorpor ated towns are liable to pay com mutation tax of $1. All dogs are to be assessed at $1 each. All returns are to be knade jy School Districts. Your failure to make re turns calls for penalty as prescribed by law. Pinckney N. Abrams AUDITOR NEWBERRY COUNTY PAGE FIVE Spiritual Values In Family Life By Paul Stewart Pastor First Baptist Church, Pelzer, S. C. I presume that my discussion is to be entirely spiritual in that' the sub ject assigned me is “Spiritual Values In Family Life.” I will try to keep within the limits of my subject. Home is the father’s kingdom, the mother’s world, and the children’s paradise. Some one has recently said, “The modern home is on the decay.” An other has said, “There has been a moral and spiritual decline in the home life of America.” While these statements are true in many re spects, we thank God for good fath ers and mothers who are seeking to shape their family life after the will of God. The home is sacred. The reasons for this are three, and are so obvious that they need only to be mentioned; (1) It is sacred because it is the earliest of human institutions, and being the first one in the long line that tends to bind mankind together. (2) It is sacred, too, because of its divine origin, being ordained of God. (3) It is foundational of all enduring institutions. On the home are built Society, the Church, and the State. How close home is to the heart of God. The picture presented in the second chapter of Genesis is not so much a picture of a garden as it is a picture of a home in that garden. So almost on the first page of the Bible God talks about home. Abraham was called to establish a home in a distant land. The ten Command ments provide for the safeguarding of the home. The book of Ruth gives us a picture of lovely home life in time of trouble? In the closing book of the Old Testament God uses the last of the prophets to call his peo ple back to the ideals and glories of the home. When the New Testament opens its first words tell us of homes, homes of religion and happi ness. The homes of which it first speaks are of Zacharias and Eliza beth, a nd of Joseph and Mary. This latter is the home into which Jesus came, and in which he lived for about thirty years, and by His being born in one He added new sanctity, a new halo, and a new bliss to home. To Him, God is Father, the head of the home that is eternal. The lovli- est parable that Jesus gave is that of a boy who seized with wanderlust and left home, but who later return ed to find himself welcomed by the father, and the strains of music but expresed the unconcealed joy over his coming back to make once moer complete the family circle. The Mas ter pictures heaven as a home; in it are abiding places; in it are love, and harmony and service and devo tion. That great model is what God wants our homes—the homes of His children —more nearly approximate. The home is significant in that it is the center of all time and the sym bol of eternity. With the human race, the making of one’s own home is the supreme earthly fascination to which all youth looks forward and upon which old age looks back. Home building stimulates the efforts of the human race. Home is dated from the very start of man. It has priority claim in time over State, School, Church, or other institutions. Home has had it seamy side. Centuries have shown changes in its attitudes and relation ships, but always there has existed this family unit, this fundamental grouping for protection, economy, procreation, development and love. It is God’s plan for the people whom He made. To have part in the build ing of a Christian home is to be en- wowed with a partnership with God, and to have an opportunity that col laborates with the forces of His uni verse. , By analogy of the home we come to understand the nature of eternity. Jesus left his home in heaven and to that home and his Father he return ed. In John 14:2,3, Jesus gives us a perfect picture of our eternal home with him. We sing “In the Christian’s home in glory, There remains a land of rest; There my Saviour’s gone before me, To fulfil my soul’s request.” The importance of the home is fundamental because it was the first God-given institution. Way back in the long ago, in the garden beautiful, there occured the first romance. The heavenly Father performed a wed ding ceremony. There began the first home. God established a home for man before he provided a School, State, or a Church. With God first things came first. He ordained it that a home should be the founda tional institution of human society. Out of the home all other institu tions should get their ideals. If we could settle the home question right we would be able to settle all other questions in a way and manner that would give us a heaven-on-earth im mediately. The home would be a minature state, a model for a frater nal, cooperative, social adjusted citi- zensihip. The home should be a school, where the most important ed ucation in human experience is at tained. The home should be a sanc tuary, creating a nd maintaining a Spiritual atmosphere of worship and service in the name of the God of love. The home is the most influential factor in human society. Our nation al life wil never rise any higher than our best homes, and will never fall any lower than our worst. Save the homes of Today, And you save Tommorow’s Day. Neglect and debauch the homes of Today, And the Nation’s foundation will decay. The growth of a Christian civili zation is illustrated by the exper ience of the early settlors who went out from the Atlantic coastal states to the western plains to make their homes. In the white covered wagons in which they traveled they always carried three things: a family, a blue-back speller, and a Bible. When groups of them located in some ad vantageous clearing, the family built a home, the blue-back speller built a school, and the Bible built a church. Thus the home is the source of ins piration of the school and the church. It is the strength of the American republic. Without discussion let me men tion some of the formidable foes of the home: Economic problems, un wholesome amusements, alcoholic beverages, hasty marriages and easy divorce, lack of religion in the home, and bad war psychology. Just here let me state that in our Sunday School lesson for September 26, 1943, that God said to the child ren of Isreal. “Ye shall lay up these words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be frontlets be tween your eyes. And ye shall teach them to your children, speaking to them when thou sittest inthine house, and when when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up” (Deut. 11: 17-19). It may be well for us to ponder whether our social chaos and the pain of these turbulent days may not be the retribution which comes upon a generation which has not been so diligent to teach the laws of God to its children. In that lesson we noted that par ents are to talk to their children about holy things as they sit with them in the house. This is directly at variance with much of the uncon- sequential chatter that characterizes many wordly homes. Also they are to talk to their children about these matters as they walk with them. There is nothing finer than beauti ful companionship on the part of par ens and children. And when this bautiful companionship leads them frequently to walk together and to discuss matters of vital issue, the soul of the child is indeed prepared for higher things. There is nothing more pleasing to God than a devout home, the atmosphere of which is obedient to Him, and the joy of which is service in His name. Parents are to teach by example. If religion is important for life, the time to make the child acquainted with spiritual things is during his earliest years, and the way to do it is by example. Actions speak louder than words. Let the children see that their father is a man of prayer, that their mother reads the Bible, and that they are both regular atten dants at church, and these will have more influence than anything that can be said. Children never get over the fact that they had good parents. When Sergeant John Bartek was on the raft in the Pacific for twenty- one days with the seven other men of Captain Rickenbacker’s party af- the crash of their plane, religious faith proved a tremendous reality and sustaining power to him. This did not come out of the clear sky, but the influence of a godly father and mother, as indicated in what he wrote some time after the incident. His mother was a very devout and loyal Christian, and his father was an humble man of unwavering faith. Dr. Charles M . Sheldon wrote these lines: “The things that linger longest in the heart. The thoughts that never vanish when we roam, The friendships that are never torn apart. Are those that center longest ‘round the home’.” During these days of war—days of uncertainty and anxiety—there is nothing so comforting and assuring as a firm faith in God and a simple trust in His Son for salvation. Being ready for the inevitable is the most important thing in this world. Some months ago I heard the story of a mother who could not sleep or rest for two or days days and nights. Something came over her that made her concerned and uneasy about her two sons in the Armed forces. Early one morning a Western Union boy brought her a yellow envelope bear ing the sad news that her sons had died in action. Some time after read ing the message some of her friends heard her say, “Now I can sleep be cause I know where my sons are now. They are safe with Jesus.” There are two forces in every home. I speak of the father and the mother, not that the children have their part in either making or break ing a home, but that these two are the mightiest of agencies. The mother stands first. The father may fail if he must, but let the mo ther fail and God pity the children. She must be consistent. At the same time the father is under an obligation to take his place as the head of the family, providing mater ial means, giving his children a chance in life, and setting the right sort of example for them. The child- The discerning and keen-witted being part of the family. They are I to honor the parents, and parents are to seek to be worthy of being honored. There must be cooperation I and love if the family life is to be what it should. Someone has said: “A home to be ideal should be like an orchestra with every instrument in tune and every player doing his part, and do ing it well. But alas! for too often we find the home is more like a mu tiny. The husband in mutiny against the wife, the wife in mutiny against her husband. The children in mutiny against the parents, and the parents in mutiny against the children. Quarreling, discord, and strife, cast ing a gloom over the whole house.” Having conceived in love and bom of good Christian parents, the next greatest blessing that can possibly come to any child is that of being reared in an ideal Christian home. It is absolutely impossible for par ents to be what they ought to be without being consistent Christians. The real purpose of every home is to shape character for time and eternity. As parents, we are helping to mold characters of our children, either good or bad. Moral charac ter is the fruit of which regenera tion is the seed and a Christian home life is the soil. The seed must fall in good soil if the fruit is abun dant. Tom Paine once said “The first five years of my life made me an infidel.” Lord Byron has been called “half god and half devil.” A study of Byron’s spend-thrifty father and his ungodly, hyper-temperamen tal mother will explain his profli gate immorality and his wasted pos sibilities. Early preparation is of paramount importance. A young girl said to her mother after a white-haired vis itor left their home: “If I could be such an old lady as t''St—so beauti ful, serene, sweet, and lovable—I should not mind growing old.” She discerning and keen-witted mother replied: “Well, if you want to be that kind of an old lady, you had better begin making her right now. She does not impress me as a piece of work that was done in a huitry. It has taken a long time to make her what she is. If you are go ing to paint that sort of portrait of yourself to leave the world, you had better be mixing your colors now.” As parents, we should be deeply concerned about our children, for in these days there are so many- evil influences at work to destroy the homes of our land. The evils which the rising generation must face were never so numerous as at the present time. The enemies of Christ & the home are not growing less, they are becoming more numer ous today than ever before and are constantly increasing. Therefore, parents should understand that no boy or girl is safe in these times who is not a Christian. If we are to help our children for time and eternity, our homes must be better, our lives truer, and our ambition to do God’s will must be supreme. When these conditions are met, wfhat a blessing our homes will be to the Church, the School, and the State. I close with A PRAYER FOR PARENTS “God, hear, this a parent’s prayer Who precious souls must lead; Keep me well and strong that I Their little mouths may feed. God, keep me young with gleam ing faith So all my children’s joy I can share with carefree heart Like that of girl and boy. Keep me strong of spirit, too, That something they may see Of Thy great strength and righteous ness Showing clear in me. % Keep my inmost mind and thought So pure that they may know Thy power, O God, to cleanse from sin, Makes men like wool like snow.” (—Norman C. Schlichter.) APPEAL TO FARMERS TO CO-OPERATE IN SCRAP DRIVE In an open letter to the people of South Carolina, Senator Burnet May- bank, today appealed to the farmers of his home state to cooperate with the “Scrap for Victory—Every Ounce Counts” campaign by turning in dis carded farm equipment for badly- needed iron and steel which will go , into vital war supplies. The 1944 scrap program in this county, which began February 24, is enlisting our farmers in all-out “clean-up” to retrieve old agricultur al! mechinery for vital iron and steel. Addressed to, “Fellow Citizens of South Carolina," Senator Maybank wrote: “Few men in this nation have had so long an opportunity as I have to observe the patriotism and sincere love of America that is in the hearts and lives of the people of South Carolina. “It is because of this patriotism that I confidently ask you to lend your efforts to aid in the “Scrap for Victory—Every Chinee Counts” cam paign that is being carried forward in South Carolina, particularly among the farms of our state. “You may ask yourself why is this necessary ? Are we not winning the war on a ll fronts? “I shall answer these two ques tions by citing, for example, the heroism and unstinting labor of the people of China and Russia. The fervent patriotism of these allies is indeed impressive. The children and old people of Russia burrow and scrape in the battlefields to collect shrapnel and spent shells so that this metal might help to ease the ( never-ending cry for more metal that ! comes unceasingly from the Russian ; army. “The Chinese people undergo the same tribulations and hardships. M FIRST 9WN0FA c ov» use 666 666 TABLETS. SALVE. NOSE DROPS Many of them have lost all—home, family and friends, limbs—all but the light of battle and the love of freedom. The people of China and Russia love freedom with the same intensity that we do—and they are aiding tangibly to keep it. “Because I know that you want to assure your freedom now and in the future, I know that our great nation need only call upon you to help avert a crisis—and you wil! do the job gladly. “There is no iron and steel scrap left on the farmlands of Russia and China. It has long since turned in to make fighting weapons to repel the invader. “Here at home the needs of war are great and growing every day. The “Scrap for Victory—Every Ounce Counts” drive is another home front effort which must be met and met with energy. We go on to Vic tory; but it is a long road. ^ Help make it shorter.” Sincerely yours, Burnet Maybank. Clarence T. Summer, Inc. Newberry, South Carolina 1944 Tax Notice After the close of business on February 29, 1944 3 per ct. Penalty will be added to all unpaid 1943 State and County taxes. J. Ray Dawkins County Treasurer