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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1928-12-13, Page 3$2,000,000 Year. Sunday School Rum Graft Laid Lesson December 15. Lesson X1 -Paul and His Friends—Philemon a-21, Gol den Text—A friend loveth at all times,--prov, 17: 17, iNTuenucriON -This Epistle to P1,1lemon is the only purely personal letter it the New'Testamc,i a ul' is one of the most interesting, reflecting the tact and generosity of the great man It belongs 'to the letters Paul border patrol agents at Detroit in wrote flora Rome, when he was a rwn graft last prisoner waiting for the result of his recon This year, it was'estitnated appeal, 'Ilei e -we have instruction on y and oilier information the place which eiendship ,is meant came nut during the deliberation of to take in the Christian life. The. the Federal Grand Jury which id ex - letter niay best be stadied, not by tax: pected to indict between twenty and ing each verse in oider but by con- thirty members of the patrol Already fourteen members have been accused of permitting liquor to be sent acress the river. Approximately 100 :nen in all will during tris Ephesian mission, In v. be dismissed from the customs service 19 we are told that Philemon owed and forty or more "rum barons" will his soul to Paul. Ile was apparently face trial if they can be caught. A one of the leading supporecrs of the i crew. of customs agents from other local church, was a man of means, cities is expected to replace the pres- and had given generously to the poor ent patrol. Saints, v. 5. He also took part in 1" PRISONERS TALK religious 'teaching, and was an evan-N FREELY. T > LY. gelist tis well "Paul .referred to hiin SIX of the men aressted have talked as his .fellow-.t'arkman,' v. 15, The i freely, it was said, envier a signed Christians evidently gathe:.ed in waiver of intniunity: The other six house for their regular worship, end a parently refused to sign, ;fudging we read in u 1 of his wife Apphia P -to Border Staff 20 U.S. P'a'trol Agents Face -Indictment in Liquor:- Smuggling iquor Smuggling Plot at ' Detroit 100 TO "`LOSE JOBS Detroit,—Two .million' dollars were obtained by United States customs sidering the'three characters: (1) Philemon (2) Onesimus (3) Paul, 1. Philemon belonged the' the city of Colessa°, and bad been won to Christ by the efforts, of . Paul, likely and of Arcliippns, who was possibly from the circumstances that six of the his son. This man is called,A "fellow -i men were placed under $2,500 bond soldier•" of .Paul, and may have had : and six under $10,000. The thirteenth to' pass through danger on behalf of Amanpleeded guilty. The fourteenth Christ. ' See the reference to : him in is still sought. Colossians 4:17. From this.: it is clear The estimate of $2,000,000 in graft that Philemon was a man ee high collected from the rum runners by the standing, a man of means), a leader m customs patrol•"is derived from the the church, and a great' personal statement of one of the men that an friend of the apostle: average month's s lit of an. individual. 2. onesimus was one of Philemon's e p t member of the patrol was $1,700, and that approximately 1110 men of the patrol are involved. This means pay- ment of $170 000 a month $2 040,000' a year. The estimate is bolstered by pre- vioua revelations that $1,600.000 worth of liquor a month has been veining q o g across, or $18.000,e00 a year. ESTIMATED GRAFT CHARGES Tho average tariff charged by the customs men, it was whispered, was slaves, and _.probably of a low and mean type. "A Phrygian slave' was one of the lowest type to. be found in the Roman world:" The slave had stolen ° some money from :his. master (v. 18), and had escaped to the city of. Rome, which was the refuge of criminals. to the narrow streets and dark cellars of that great capital it was not difficult for one of this class to escape detection. However, the eyes of God were upon him, and by. some: unknown. means this poor man was brought into contact with Paul, where he learned to love Christ. The 25 cents a ewes for beer and $1 a cage miracle of coswersion was again en- far liquor. It was said the custom acted: This weak, despised Oriente' was to charge .8500 a night, during was .brought to a new life. and Ms which the rum runners could` bring across as much 'liquor as' possible. Whole trainloads of whisky have been known to be emptied in Windsor in a night, it was whispered, all• of which came across in "right" boats. An immediate result o>; phe investi- gation was a sudden abatement in rum -running operations, according to customs officials. Runners fear arrest and being charged with conspiracy against the government. on r, ..or - devotion to this mart who bad been the means of his salvation knew no. bounds. He , became very nseful to Paul, who would have liked to keep him with him.. But evidently con- science had been at work in this run- away slave, and after doubtless many conversations, they both decided that some attempt at reparation, or resti- tution must be made. 8. Paul—The letter throws much light upon the love, justice and tact of Paul. He wished to retain the services of Onesimus, for it was very convenient for him to have one who would willingly ran his: errands, and do his bidding. But Paul's sense of juatice urges hint to acknowledge the claim of pwnership and, accordingly, the decision has beenreached to re- turn. this man to Colossae. However, Paul writes :a letter to go with One - sinus in order that the return may bemade as early as Possible. First of all, Paul reminds his friend that a total change has taken place in the character of this forrr:er culprit, and he playfully refers' to the name which the slave carries. Onesimus meant "neat -able," Once this poor slave was far from profitable, but now that Christ has entered his heart, the Worthless has been made worthy. He is indeed profitable, v 11. Paul thus passes to the actual loss • of money, and generously ogees to make up this amount tut °of his own packet. Ho will nay over all that Onesimus stole, v, 18. But most of all' 'is it Paul's desire to remind his correspondent that these has cone in a total revolu- tion in the relation between masters Sind slaves, This mon, it is true, is a slave. but he is also re Christian and, therefore, a brother, and he -must be taken back into the household not on the old footing only, but also as a brother for whom Christ died. This union in Christ is to change all other relationships, v. 16. To crown the a appeal, Paul reminds Philemon that his .own Christian faith is the direct result of Paul's effort on his behalf, v. 19, In the.,elosing sentences, the apostle speaks of his entire confidence in the generosity of Philemon, arid he requires him to get ready someplace where he may stay, as .the trial is •likeiy to end in his release, (1) There•is no letter in which we cabetter see the fine` spirit of the Christian gentleman. "As an expreb sion of simple dignity, of refined cour- easy, of large sympathy, and of warm, personal aectiee, the Epistle to Phile- mon stands unrivalled." (2) It is also important to note that this letter shows the way in which the truth of Christianity was begin- ning to' influence the great social lives of the world, Slavery wee a terrible '• crime, It was one of the worst features of the ancient world: The slave had no rights. He was, like any other piece` of possession, et. the disposal of his owner. This was one of the blackest plagues in the Roman Empire, and had much to do with its fall. One might naturally expect Christ to have some cure for this evil, However, we do not find in the New Testament any program for the libera- tion of the slave. But we do find that Christianity sought to change the heart. It preached the gospel of love to master and. slave alike, and the neve germ of this grace and truth worked. in the, lives of menand women till the tithe came when it was made clear to all that it was'intolerabie that sneh a social: worry should continue. Slav- ery was a sin against Christian Mo- therhood. Friendship I have drained the sparkling beak- er of the magical brew of Youth and been thrilled with the wild tumult of its impetuous urge coursing through my veins. I have pledged my happiness with the blood -red goblet of ,Love and drank deeply of,itseeaored and•in• toxieeting contents. I have toyed with the tempting opal bowl of Tmitition, but its -dregs are bitter and May only be sweet- ened by weet-ened.by libations from the crystal eup of Service to Man, Then It was revealed to me that no, one yet has drunk too deeply of the sacranieitt in the golden chalice of Effect of War`. on Social Life Barriers Between Classes Broken Doter, Says Woman Writer NEW PLUTOCRACY As Generous With Their Purses as the Old Aristocracy Before the war society was essen- tially selfish. It was a club with a very small membership, run by a few powerful houses for their own 'benefit and that of their friends, writes Resita:Forbes hi the London Daily Express. in some cases it may have had ex- ceedingly high personal standards, but it hdd no sense of responsibility( out`rs> le is own guarded circle; Before -the 'war society had no in- fluence at all except on those who wished to get into it or to remain in it.' • Without interest in anti thin; be- yond its own sphere, which included polities and the welfare of its tenants, it was entirely cut of touch with life. With the middle -classes it had no, contact, and, ' cociient to allow its laborers a pittance of sixteen shillings a week, it had no conception of any rights but its own. CHANCE FOR YOUTH The effect of the war on such a narrow' System was- dynamic. It, is complained that tolerance has become laxity, and that, with the de- struction of ..most social •barriers, standards of behaviour are as' out of date as manners or morals. I do not agree: The dignity and ret'rence of the Victorian a„o were doubtless admir- able, hut they screed no better pur- pose than the freemasonry oe the pre - Effec of Recent Storm in Europe TURBULENT SEA TAKES ITS TOLL French cargo ship Yser was (Dialled against the rocks of Belle Island off the drrench coast and abandoned by the. crew who jumped to the rocks. neemo,v=edged necessity. Society plays 6 d Discuss Plight of Miners. in Britain .All Political' Parties View Un- employment With Ut- most Concern London:—The' plight of unemployed miners in Britain has reached such e serious stage that all political parties aro viewing the matter with the ut- most concern and the Miners' Federa- tion has .issued en appeal for assist- ance. Nearly 300,000 mine • workers are out of employment, and of these 200,000 to 250,000 constitute a perm- anent unemployed surplus. With their wives and children, this means that over .1.000,000 souls are I faced with a cataclysm comparable to speedily forthcoming. The Miners' Fedsration, in its ap- peal, says: "The mining. population is faced with a catacysm 'comparable to the destruction wrought by some great earthquake or other giant: disturbance of nature. Some of the` miners have exhausted their unemployed'benefit and are being supported by grants from the poor 'law, which naturally are small, and the courts are filled with stories of hungry miners tramp- ing the ramp-ingthe countryside in search of work. Th natural reluctance to The miners leave the mines is also responsible for much distress and in the valleys of South Wales their • mental attitude makes the transfer' of them to other areas a difficult undertaking. They are' so accustomed to being hedged in between hills that they Tagard the'out- side world as foreign, and it is even difficult to get them to allow their daughters to go to London to work as - domestic servants." Newspaper correspondents report , terrible conditions. Men, women and children are living on the barest sub- sistence and thousands of children are without boots in spite of all char- itable efforts. The unemployed are sent. generation. e 1nmee openly than it useon d to in the o en s rapidly sinking into a state of utter Coming to Light hopelessness. itetAXTZ " Static" Car Gets Hero's le/come Conqueror of Man -Made In- terference Royally Greet- ed by Port Arthur Huge welcomes may have been ex- tended to those heroes who eongnered the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans on their adventurous flights, but the en- thusiasm per person could hardly have exceeded the welcome extended by a Canadian city to the first government interference par which sailed into its midst in t solo flight to conquer "man- made static." Car number 16, the latest addition to the fleet, is at present in northern Ontario, where it is clearing up• trouble for northern listeners. This car, which is equipped to eliminate all inductive interference, started out recently from Toronto with one of the government radio engineers who re- cently returned from the Hudson Straits, as interference engineer. From Toronto north to North Bay, and "then west through the nickel country, past Sudbury to Sault Ste. Marie, trouble shooting. was done all along the way: At Sault Ste. Marie the car went aboard a passenger steamer to Port Artbyr. At Port Arthur a welcoming corn- mittee, including the Mayor and the officials of the radio club, met the aac as she rode off the gangplank, It was the first radio interference car that had .been seen in the city. The engineer was tendeted a banquet, at which 400 radio officials, dealers and fans of the district sat down. During the two weeks that the car stayed in Port Arthur and Port William it cleared both cities of inductive inter- ference. The sole logical reason for the exist- days of guarded portals, but it works epee bf a privileged c' -ass called se- both harder and more productively. ciety is that it should compromise all It acknowledged a wider responsi- a isbestachievement bil t . Whereas befog theit th ( e r aswell warr was Pas Y e tradition. Frons the point of -view of content with a monstrously uneven any country general welfare and distribution, not only of wealth but progress, what a man has done or can of opportunity, there is today no do is inevitably more important than movement for the improvement of who he is or who seas itis grand- labor conditions which is not support - father. ed by the names of both the old and Since the war everyone imbued with new society. enterprise and common sense has teas- The most insistent criticg of modern ed to look backwards. life are those who depended on Vic- Therefore, ancestors have ceased to torten restrictions for their power or count, except, perhaps, as a stimulus. prosperity. These lament the experi- The- war gave youth its chance as meets of a generation which is out to much in` society as in every other find the best wherever and however sphere, and youth was not content to it leas -been produced. divide humanity into strata. But they are defeated, not only by Ae. carelessly. as it is accused of the modern spirit of adventure which crashing codes and ballroom "gates," makes friends 'where it chooses and it felled the barriers between public marries where its common sense ra- eechool and board school. then than its inhibitions dictates, but LACK OP VENEER. by the facility of transport which The harm attributed to the war is has reduced the whole civilized world ail on the surface. We hear a great into brie playground er one labor mart. deal about the new plutocracy, but WOMEN OF FORTUNE they are as generous with their purses and far less invidious than the old aristocracy. Except in veneer, there ie no difference between them. They entertain the sante people in the same houses. If they lack the habit of that somewhat frigid dignity which is generally combined with in- adequate imagination, they substitute spontaneity, friendliness and a shrewd appreciation of human values. Society as a club must be just about as disagreeable to its original mem- bers as some. Tory stronghold in Pall Mall, its placidity invaded by Social. - lets, would be to its harrassed found- Fliers S®w Grain for, Hungry Quail Izaak Walton . League, Feeds Birds in California Burned Area San Diego,( Calif. -Feeding 'home- less and hungry game birds from air- planes is the latest good to which aviation has been applied. . Thousands of quail' which had thrived in the chaparral-coveredre- gions ie. San, Diego and Riverside Counties, recently were robbed - of their homes and feed when a series of disastrous forest fires swept through, their. native habitat, destroying all vegetation, Chapters of the Izaak Walton League of Southern California began the collection of several tons of wheat tied other grains; fliers at the Jenited States Army aviation training school, March _Field, Riverside, were called upon to aid in the distribution of the grain over the char'r'ed degione. The fliers report that the quail have learned that the roaring 'air- plane is their friend, and instead ,of, fleeing in terror, they soon learned to remain close at hand waiting for the falling particles of grain as :the plane flashed above them a.short die tante ;from the ground. Feeding of Friendship, without which even the quail during .the winter by plane Youth aid Love would lose' their will continue, During the war two-thirds at Ieast of the men who belonged to contem- porary society were killed. 'Inevitably, their places were taken by represen- tatives of what is vaguely known as the middle-class, and these married into families vele before 1914 were too self-sufficient even to have in- vited them to darcesd It was the middle-class girls who could not 'Harry, becouse their men- folk had followed the natural impulse to compete for the biggest available prizes. Another result of the war was to put a great many fortunes into the ors hands of women. But to society ao a progressive So many heirs were killed and force, in fact, as a force at all, the their deters, who would normally war has done nothing but good. To- have been content with the pittance day it comprises every ihtellectual allowed to female children by our and active element, every shades of system of primogeniture, found theme political opinion, and every creative selves landowners and free to marc$* impulse on which the nation depends. where they wished. NATIONAL RESERVOIR. Consequently the last ten years have seen a social evolution caused by Before the war society was a pre- the infusion of nev• strains with serve. Even I can remember being standards of work and ambition un- told as a child that a certain eminent known before the war. The effect of peer and landowner was a Liberal and such has been even inose salutary therefore, of course, outside the pale than the revolution, gelded by newly as represented by county recognition! liberated youth which realized that Today society is a national reser- the society Eden grew only one sort voir, into which flows all that is must of applel vigorous, whether it be good or bad. With the war ,u'as evolved a ertaln Scum always rises to the surface, mental elasticity, • inseparable from so we are apt to hear too much about the demands made on feminine as well the 'fast" or "smart" sets, which are as masculine adaptability. As long as totally unimportant except in so far this endures, society will be fluid as they mislead public opinion. rather than static, and, like : every The effect of the war on social life other modern condition, it will be generally' has been to make work an subject` to growth. Vienna Police Say . Securities Are Property of Bank in New York Vienna.—Tire police announced re- cently that they have recovered $210,- 000 worth ox" Tokio electric Light bonds, the property of the New York Guaranty Trust Company, which were stolen last August on the United States Iitter Leviathan 'while in tract sit from New York to Paris. Six of these bonds, each of $1,000 value, were presented, to a Vienna bank which advised the police. Since then 204 additional bonds were traced to vienna. MAILS RIFLED LAST JUNE Malls aboard the Leviathan were rifled last June, the amount of the loot being variously estimated from $500,- 000 to $6,000, New York postal in- spectors at the time said -the amount was not more than $10,000. 0. H. Ciarahan, head of the postal inspection service in New Yorlc, said that the theft of the Guaranty Trust Company bonds was not discovered "until some time after" the Leviathan mail theft in June. J. L. O'Neill, vice-president of the Guaranty Trust'Cempany, said that the dispatch from Vienna was a mis- take and that no bonds belonging to the company had been stolen on the Leviathan or elsewhere. - "We have had no losses of the kind," he said. "I understand that the se- curities lost on the Leviathan, though originally reported in the millions, were later found to be worth only $19,000 or $20,000." A Merry Xmas And Personal Cards Your friends would prefer them and you will have a lot of fun preparing your own Christmas Cards this year. Make it personal, send au individual greeting to your friends that reflects your personality or the lire of your home. Mabel Eeegh Hutchins volun- teers a number of suggestionsas to Christmas card ideas in the current issue of "Your Home Magazine", She lists the photograph of the horn -made into a cut and printed along with a verse, Listing the thole necessary for the work she suggests that the artistic woman make a out in battleship lino- leum andeither print it herself through the clothes wringer or have it clone by a printer. Avoid the stilted type of cord, she says, Moun1,Etna Rampage Serious �M1A P+ diMw+-P wYN , YnI'Y�` ti 41 P..79 '�+'"�^,wi, rYrry f f "^`W _. y,•�7eG7U 4'Ac`,en til tN"M1�•.A. STREAMS OF LAVA SUBMERGE TOWN At eft, steaming lava pouring down the aide of Mount Etna, with refugees, whose home in, the iacicground. Bush Telegraph Informs Africans of Ki ng's.Illie s News Spreads Through Wilds and ' Natives Assemble Along Route ` Which Prince of Wales Travels on His ; Hurried Re- turn to the Coast London.—How the mysterious tele- graph of the African natives, 'which the white man never has fathomed, spread the news of the Ring's illness and the race of the Prince of Wales to the coast Froin his hunting camp was described by Sir Percival Phillips, specialcorrespondent of the Daily Mail, in a dispatch from y Dar -Es - Salaam. Sir Percival cabled: "The inhabi- tants, both white and black, assent bled along the route of the Prinee'e specialtrain, showing sympathy fqr the Prince of Wales. News Travels Fast "News travels fast in the bush. Natives living. In the vicinity of the railroad already knew from their mysterious wireless the purport of the Prince's journey. The women paused amid their cooking pots. The men' were curious but iinpassive, "A stray European comes to my carriage, in his battered helmet; khaki shirt and shorts, eager for a morsel of news denied _ to him in his life of solitude." Sir Percival then presented a pie - tura of the Prince's arrival, at Dar- Es-Salalim: "Tropical darkness, damp and oppressive, enveloped Dar -Es - Salaam in its suffocating clasp when the5Prince's special train enteredthe staton at 8.05 p.m. The Governor, Sir D. C.' Cameron, and his chief see• retary were -waiting on the platform. The Prince conversed with them earnestly. - "Tho Prince descended the steps to the street Into the glare of a single electric lamp.' He paused and looked in wonderment at the scene. The crowd, which had been ordered to keep clear of the exit, forgot its usual discipline and rushed wildly to obtain a ee scup view, but there was dead ' silence, "The Prince entered -his automobile stilt wearing his safari dress, includ- ing a shirt with half -sleeves and no coat , and a khaki helmet. The watchers then cheered him." PARIS CHIC A new slender type combination, fitted through the bodice and hipline, with lower part cut circular to pro- vide sufficient fulness to hemline, to take the place of a slip. Touch of em- broidery gives it a real French ap- pearance. Itis ideal to wear beneath the smart . ,slender hipline fret'ks, Style No, 228 in sizes 16, 18, 20 years, 86, 88, 40 and 42 inches bust measure, and can be made as simple or as ela- borate as one chooses. Per everyday occasions, washable silk radium, .flat sill( crepe or batiste is practical. Gerrgette crepe, ninon, flowered chif- fon voile and crepe satin are fascinat- ing fabrics. 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"The plane makes It possible fax ;the hunter to roach hitherto MamieMamiesible hunting country;, mostly th breeding ground " of our big game that such parties could possibly viol ate oar game laws because of thea remoteness, and furthermore, be cause 'the plane does not give ou game' a fair Chance. We feel con fldent ^ that the airplane in • Alask will just as surely destroy, our wild d r e r Film oNin Canada Greeted by Jeers Returned Harvesters Were Prominent When.' Broke Out Hamilton, Lancashire. Scenes of rowdyism were witnessed in a motion picture theatre hare Monday when films wore shown and addresses given outlining opportunities for settlement on the land in Canada and fax training unemployed youths as farmworkers. The meeting, organized under the auspices of the Ministry of Labor, broke up in disorder amid boos and jeers. The interrupters included a group of men who had returned from the Canadian harvest fields. Despite interference by Communists with meetings organized in Hamilton co to popularize Canada•as a new min. try for unemployed miners to gain fresh opportunities, scenes of remark. able enthusiasm were witnessed at the employment exchange. Scores 01 able-bodied young fellows of fine char- acter preseuted themselves for enrol- ment as candidates for the free train - leg in agricultural work and assisted passage schemes of the Government. It was apparent that the disorder recorded above had been of a pre• arranged nature and inspired by Com- munists. The Minister of Labor, encouraged by the success of the scheme, is arranging a series of meet. ins in all industrial centres of the region. Says Dais Herds alm May be Depleted Motherwell - Warns Against g Sale of Milch Stock to U.S. Toronto,—A note of warning wee sounded to dairymen of Eastern Gan• ada when Hon. W. It, Motherwell, Federal Minister of Agriculture, ad. dressing a rodent meeting of the National Dairy C$uneli, declared there was grave,dangerof Canada's excel lent dairy herds becoming depleted through the sale of milch stock to United States dairy interests. Unless stopped they would find their herds depleted and vitiated, and milk• prod- ucts of poor quality with lowered prices.. Once before in the history of Cana• clian dairying the farmers of this coun- try oun try Pound themselves in a bad` pest• tion owing to the fact that they had sold all their best stook across the border. This was immediately atter' the American Civil War,. when cattle" prices soared as.they are doing to- • Y. Dr. Motherwell advised the dairy- men airy `men to steer a middle course, ,J'1 do 1 not say yon should reject all tempt,' Mg offers for your best stock," he said, "but make sure you do not ruin your herds, 1 know it is"sometimes hard to resist the temptation of taking unprecedented prices for your herds, • but remember you will pay for it even Wally if you go to. extremes;" Won't Forget Him Leaving a fashionable hotel , a wealthy but niggardly man was sure, rounded by servants all excepting' tips. , Getting past 'this batch he' stopped into a waiting 'car, the: door; of which, was, held by the houstepor i ter who thrust out hisepalm. "You're : not going to forget Air?" he .inquired anxiously. a The departing' guest grasped the outstretched (rand and shook iia i. "No' , he said in a voice charged with { emotion; " P11 write to you." ere buried; standing life as bee the automobile In the Un ted States."