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JO Percent Increase
For School Teachers
The “New Deal” looks as if it took into considera
tion every branch of industry and common labor, yet it
overlooked completely the plight of one group of people to
whom we owe the well-being of future generations.
When the NRA came into being all branches of in
dustry were placed upon a forty-hour week \oluntarj
basis. This was later changed to compulsory 40 hour
week by the Wage and Hour Administration.
The Wage and Hour Administration went one step
further and set up a compulsory wage schedule of 40c
per hour for the first 40 hours and time and half pay for
all time over 40 hours.
— This increased the wages of every class of people
except those who are entrusted with the teaching of our
future citizens. While we pay the most common labor on
a forty-eight hour basis around $22.00 to $30.00 per
week, we still pay our school teachers less than this
amount.
For a school teacher to earn a scale of SIOB.OO per
month it is necessary for (his teacher to have had six years
in school and six years experience in teaching.
Think of the irpny of this scale of wages. While we
pajt common labor approximately $125.00 per month, we
pay our school teachers who have given their best years
l o study, less than this amount.
This looks as if we are placing a premium on illiter
acy. Not only this but we are taking advantage of the
loyalty of these fine men and women who are giving of
their talent to the young of our communities.
A few weeks ago Mr. H. L. Wingate, President of
the Farm Bureau of Georgia, called a few of the leading
school officials of our state to Macon, stating to them
that he. had a plan in which he thought they would be
interested. He then stated the Farm Bureau would go on
record as favoring a fifty per cent increase in salary for
school teachers throughout our state.
Since that time Mr. Wingate has been going through
out the state preaching this gospel and he has been re
ceiving ample support wherever he has talked along this
subject.
- We heard him talk at Barnesville and again at Thom
son on this subject and his theory is logical in every way
aiid we herewith pledge our support to the program of
tht Farm Bureau.
We believe our school teachers should have an in
crease in salary of at least fifty percent. There is no group
of people in the Nation who have greater responsibility.
No group who is more unselfishly going about their task
from day to day than this group of loyal school teachers.
Theirs is a labor of love. Love and duty are the only
things which could so unselfishly keep them on the job
from day to day teaching your children and mine how
to earn a living in the years to come.
Not only how to earn a living, but how to live clean
ly, honestly and religiously. Do you think for one minute
that, work of this kind is, or can be, paid for in dollars
and cents.
- This is a serious matter. Our young people of today
must receive the best training possible for the hardships
of tomorrow. Do we want to measure the wonderful
teaching they are receiving on a dollars and cents basis?
If we had,these teachers of ours would have quit long
ago.
We want to voluntarily acknowledge our debt to this
fine group of people who have served so unselfishly and
faithfully. They have given of their best for our youth.
It is time we saw fit to reward them in a substantial man
ner.
We can secure money for every other worthwhile
project. We can secure money to build roads, to build
additions to our elemosinary institutions, to build ad
ditions to our schools and colleges, to build any other
cause for which we see fit.
— Is it not much more important that we secure money
to build human lives, to make our children secure in the
knowledge of the task before them as they enter into the
tEDrld of commerce and trade?
Let's all get behind this movement and assure our
eachers of a living wage and retirement when their
rears of service are completed.
Home Street Home
” While turmoil may exist in the world about us there !
s always one place where we feel at ease. It is the house
where we live. It may be humble. It may be sham and
insufficient — but it is home to us and to our friends.
- When Payne wrote his immortal song many years
ago, he touched a chord ih our hearts wheih has been
ever vibrating. ‘‘Home, Sweet Home. There’s No Place
Like Home!” Those words have thrilled millions!
m And that thrill lives today. For who can approach
his home without a quickening of his breath and step?
Thtre are not many of us who do not respond to that
loVE we have for the place we live.
The government may call it a residence, cur neigh
bors “th? shack.” our statistical friends a dwelling place
— but to us it will always be the same — Home! Home,
Sweet Home!
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pounds. There are slot machines like that. j
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Sunday School Lesson
Friends of'Jesus
Scripture - Mark 10:13-14, 16;
15:43-16; 8:1-3; 15:1-2: John 1:35-
151; 3:l-2a: 4.6 7. (John 3:l-2a
ends with “night.”)
Memory Selection: Ye are my
friends, if ye do the things
which I command you. John
15:14.
Our Lord defined religion as
friendship with him. “Ye are
my friends.” he said, “if ye do
the things which I command
you.”
Our Lord founded no church
in the sense of appointing a
hierarchy and creating an organ
ization. He simply made friends
with a group of people whose
confidence he had secured, and
he left the evangelizing of the
world to these friends of his.
Thej f became the nucleus of the
Church.
1. Jesus and the Children
We observe first in today’s
lesson our Lord’s friendship
with children. He seems to have
have been trusted by them and
beloved by them.
Jesus had just spoken to the
multitude about the sanctity of
marriage His words glorifying
marriage and the home must
have suggested to certain of the
parents present to bring their
children to this great teacher
that he might touch them.
Matthew tells us (19:13) that the
parents requested Jesus to lay
his hands on their children and
to pray for them.
The apostles .were greatly an
noyed by this undignified in
trusion and belabored the eager
parents in no uncertain terms.
They probably felt that Jesus,
able as he was to deal with
profound spiritual problems and
to teach adults the way of life,
should not be asked to waste
his time with children just be
cause their parents desired him
to do so. But our Lord felt
quite differently about the mat
ter. We are told that he was
moved with indignation at the
disciples’ action, for their judg
ment of spiritual values was
thereby revealed as superficial.
His words were sharp and im
perative as he said: “Suffer the
little children to come unto me;
forbid them not; for to such be
longeth the kingdom of God."
In the second passage of
Scripture, we read the account
of how Jesus chose from among
his disciples twelve to whom
he proposed to give special train
ing. These would, in a unique
way, represent him in the world.
Simon, called Peter, heads
every list. The list falls into
three groups with Simon head
ing the first, Philip, the second,
and James the son of Alphaeus,
the third. Bartholomew is evi
dently the Nathanael men
tioned in John’s gospel. Simon,
the Zealot, had been a member
of a ’ewish anarchistic society
which stopped at no violence
in its attempt to throw off
the Roman yoke. Lebbaeus
and Thaddaeus mentioned by
Matthew and Mark are evi
dently surnames by which Ju
das the son of James was known
generally in the Church. The
list included the masterful, im
petuous Peter, the spiritual
i minded, loving John, and the
diabolical Judas who later be-
I trayed his Lord.
We are told that Jesus pray
ed for a whole night on the
mountain preparatory to choos
ing these men. When it was
day, he came down to the plain,
called his disciples together, and
appointed these twelve who
were to be with him, to preach
and teach, and to heal.
Jesus chose twelve that he j
might mold them after his di-1
vine ideals. They are proto-1
types of what Christians are sup- j
posed to be in every generation I
and in every walk of life.
We read that soon after our j
Lord had sat as a guest in the j
home of Simon the Pharisee and
had been annointed by a woman ।
who was in the city, a sinner
. . . ” He V'ent on a tour
through cities and villages
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pleaching and bringing the
good tidings of Ihe kingdom of
God . . . .”
With him on this occasion
went also “certain women who
had been healed of evil spirits
and infirmities ” Our lesson at
this point introduces us to a
great fact ir. our Lord's life,
namely, that many devout wo
men of his day were particular
ly attracted by his teachings,
followed him from one part of
the country to another helping
him and his disciples in a num
ber of ways, and, in the case
of a few who appeared to have
some wealth, ministered to him
and his friends out of their sub
stance.
Jesus taught the gentle Mary
in her home in Bethany. He
cast out of Mary Magdalene the
evil spirits which tormented her.
Joanna appeared to be a wo
man of social position and
wealth. Susanna is only a
name, but Christ throughout the
ages has been the inspiration
both of the great and of the
inconsequential.
Our Lord was and is greatly
indebted to womanhood. Be
cause he chose to humble him
self and assume the form of a
man, he was born of a woman.
He found comfort in the home
of Lazarus and his sisters, Mary
and Martha, Three women
stood near his cross and by their
presence sustained him in his
last agonies. It was women who
went first to the sepulcher, and
it was these women— particul
arly one woman, Mary Magda
lene—who first saw him risen
from the dead. Women united
with the apostles in the upper
room, waiting and praying for
the coming of the Holy Spirit
upon them. They were among
that group upon whom the
Spirit fell on the day of Pente
cost, constituting them the
Christian Church.
The Pharisees regarded with
contempt and treated as out
casts the people of their day
who had little respect for their
authority and for the law of
God, and who, in many instan
ces, were engaged in wicked
pursuits. These religious lead
ers were highly scandalized that
Jesus should have taken up with
such people.
The scribes and Pharisees
murmured against Jesus for his
friendly atitude toward such
wicked characters. It appeared
to these people that Jesus by his
attitude toward outcasts mani
fested a secret sympathy with
their evil. He received sinners;
and gladly; worst of all, he act
ually ate with them.
But Christ considered him
self a physician treating the
spiritually sick.
We should not conclude that
Jesus had friends only among
the poor and outcast. We
have already noted women of
wealth and distinction who fol
lowed him. He was sought out
by a rich young ruler and by a
centurion. In the passage of
Scripture with which our lesson
ends, we find Nicodemus , the
teacher par excellence of his
generation, coming to Jesus by
night.
Many people have criticized
Nicodemus for coming at night,
and if this circumstance was
prompted by cowardice he was
worthy of criticism. But cer
tainly it was better to come by
night than not to come at all.
Nicodemus went out of his
way to keep his visit to Jesus a
secret, and 10, by a strange
paradox, his visit has become
one of the most widely publiciz
ed events of history. The third
chapter of John, wherein his
visit is described, is one of the
best known and most helpful
chapters of the Bible.
Jesus told Nicodemus plainly
that his life must be renovated
from the inside out He proved
a good friend to Nicodemus be
cause he told him this truth and
told him plainly.
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