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„, A y b y KENTUCKY
girl wins in good
roads competition
nnrothv Louise Robert* to Re-
f ’” D h c Firestone Four Year.’
i'uirrrtity Scholarship
RO/ 1 DS and religion
„., d Committee Awards
l}istingu**“ iC ® **
Ce¥C tid Fi'iz" to Mountain Lass-
Enters Ohio Cohege.
krtbiugton, D. C., December—Miss
; . , Roberts, Harlan, Ky,
; 1 is announced by the
„ ; „j, Vi - av Ei'r.*ation Board as winner
,/-h c H. S. Fir;done Four Vea:;--
;'.c!i’.))arship, offered for
l - Vst esse; entered in the fourth
annual good oad essay content.
‘ PaK {jivicr a Methodist minister
nsLsent in the heart of the Kentuck
,,,..nta :.-s. 'i.e becomes the rec:p
ic-of o;:o of vh.: most coveted prizes
ev hiips the largest single edu
eatier.al avr the U rited States,
i; p than i'->..000 high school su
tic • fnr.: vM > cions of the coun •
t c ; -.iu?ht the prise which a
].:j ; govei-mumt .uncial, a u i still
gnishfid eait-’r, and a learned church
aanawarded to her. All essays were
written on the subject “The Influ
ent of Highway Transport Upon the
lift of My Community.”
Members -a the reviewing commu
tes that av;;-.r*je ! the scholarship were
the Secretary of War, John W -
Weeks; Ur Albert Shaw, New York
City, editor of the Review of Re
viiv. s; and Bishop William F. Ander
: ;r, Gmdnnati. Ohio. They served
it ibe u-ijiK'-tt iff the United States
Commissions oi Education, Dr. John
J Tigert, an spent weeks read n;•
th several <• -says which previously
hid been and ; ;en as the best from the
re pectivt state.- and territories from
which they e.vr.o.
Le conniittee awarded honorable
roentior io ih e says by Miss Mav
jorje Muthev. - !, Portland, Oregon;
Ben Ihompsor, Peoria, Arizona; and
Mis.- Addie . Muller, Sandford, Fla.
R ; hertff e-say had first been
u t b ■ from her school,
'■"‘l then as ti o best from the State
0: Ktstucky by the Extension De
portment ci the State University of
f-’ irjcky, which awarded her a gold
rweal a?, a toi-on of Kentucky honors.
'-Wilar procedure was followed in
.i; states, whore educational insti-
cfopi-fetc with the liikhway
Riv-mi in the promotion
C ir ‘ anr ' u; d competition among high
k-m! students.
rvn ieit ig conducted each
I- 1 - 1 Tlie siibvrct of the essays to
* J tte '' hi 1924 is ‘-The Relation
' fl'ghways to Rome Life.” All
'* Stents may compete,
ten c SUCCS ’-' U: 1 contestant will re
.... larship for this year.
i*u "'!* ,~* 1 s Dobortls’ essay wrs
tt v't*-'*' Dio judges, gl.e became
t^\ Ui * t -’-’ arf et of high school
:aVe keen ho honored,
toii.;-.! r .' ,:i ’ s nov/ 111 university or
0 f,i n, ‘ general provisions
<ent'VT;?‘ hip> AU expenses inci-
J . 1 room, hoard, books,
bp,. f ! ' f ’ r each of thorn are
aT!’ donor * H * s
ti, ‘ Ohio, a member of
j,.. j. -'-d'acafeon Board.
Ki, ar ;‘ Stv ' in ' h( ' award was Miss
daho X , '" <toT ' fiek} , Weiser, I-
Ifcrti, ® :! h-aduate in 1824 from
Illinois, h’ersity, Evanston,
is Miss Garland
h*ia p‘v7'. atl ending West Vir-
Virw. . Morgantown. West
' . - ’ lhir d is Karl G. Pear
in T ANARUS, hangas, a - freshman
’’ffton Univers ty,
. . •• Migg Roberts,
'■ uh f now pastor of a
f >Ur; e .- ! ’ f,h io, has ent' r
- s'd .1 t daughter of Dr.
i J ’ * n. t
She was
Ay i. ' u; in a Mr* ho
”V" '' age a t C; uotrs-
town. N. Y., near the spot wh.re
. ooper wrote ?is famous LeatVu v
Stocking Talcs.
Mils Robert*’ essay fellows:
IHE INFLUENCE OF HIGHWAY
TRANSFORT UPON THE RELIC
I IOC'S LIFE OF MY COMMUNITY
1
| By Dorothy Lok?* c Robert*,
of Harlan, ICv .
The Aopiar. Way. most famous of
Roman h'gbiwayo, was called by Ho -
ace Busknell “the Queen of Reads.."
I
In estnohshir.g Christianity Paul and
other early Chriiat-iang made great ise
of the twenty-nine famous military
roads radiating from Rome. “And . .
. . . the brethren .... came to
meet us as far as The Market of Ap
imv: And it came to pass ihat Home
having the greatest read, built la'e *
the greatest church. ?8. Peter's. The
greatest church of Chrinrianify built
at th the end of the greatest highway.
Btrance coinci<:ence! Here is food
for thought. From the ve-y firs:, the
mightiest of nil religion.-r went for
ward upon tbs great highways of
travel.
The presc.r writ -r lives in t : -
mountains of South-ear-tern Kentucky
where the religveits life is backward,
and the roads almost i iiyarabie. T o
purpose of this pape-r is to ‘how how
these two facts affect each other .•One
dislikes to write anything uncompli
mentary of one’s own community,
but one should study conduiens be
fore suggeefiing remedies.
A survey of Har'an County shows
forty seven with thirty-six
ordained and licensed preachers.
Excepting i'ooi churches in the conn
ty sent, there a r e weak, struggling
organ : zatk-f?. ;nested principally in
mining camps:, served by untrained
preachers. Ti e e men, most of wlnn
could wish difllculty r.r.s the entsance
examinations of a frrst-e’a s hig’i
school, work at the mines or else
where* through out the week, having
little Leisure or st-udv or prepo a
tion . Such , leadership develops on’y
veligicn of the emotional, irrosponf.i
b'o type.
Statistics fmp our criminal mv.rtJ=
indicate that outlying churches
fail to meet the situation. Recent/y
within four, days in this locality
twelve pui>:n f : met violent deaths.
Ge:.*r&! lawlesime®* is ret in real
ity the cause of crime. It, is oly tie
outward symptom. It stiggests igno
rance; the ?>eple do not know. With
sapped vitality :nd weak morals go
sluggi h Largs families live
ir. poor, small- houses; the death rate
is high. In one school a hook-worm
clinic showed ninety-nine per cent
of the pupils were afflicted. Religion
should not be blind to physical fact-”.
Effective churches would make such
unwholesome facts impossible. Dis
ease, crime, b religion, these exist
where people do not know what is
good in character or right in conduct.
If it bo true that ignorance ex
•plair.'S the backwardness of this ter
ritory, then both the church and
school are needed to counteract it.
Religious and educational “effort here
rise and fall together. Good churches
foster good schools. Vigorous church
es and centralized schooN are impos
sible in rural sections without good
roads. Our isolation is the cause of
our iignoranck- We would have some
where to go and something'to get, if
w* had someway of going. Three
dollars to ride are mile.'? in a Flar’an
jitney! The average car is a hope
!es.' wreck after or.c year of steady
humping over ridges and washouts.
My kinpclom for a hijfhwev!
' A. -nong our agricultural folk old
farr/.:ng methods, prevail. The moun
lairioer v.rests few hundred dollar?
whers ha should yet a thousand.
The jitney, auto truck, and family
car will he chariots from heaven,
solving our isolation. Good roads wil
encourage the auto truck, diveusi y> y
of crops, improved farming methods,
cooperative gelling, contentment, and
an increase of the economic surplus.
This surplus we will invest in church
e- and schools. Good roads will mean
fewer church, but bettor, larger ones;
; fewer ministers, but l etter tra >ied,
| educated community leaders.
! So Harlan County rnus: build her
, Apr-:an Wav- , that modern apostles
j may have highways for the new pro
gram if f'vaapoMom and education.
“And a ! ighv. a> shall bo thc-re, anti
a vhv, and it shall be called the way
of b -.dines'-: *t shall be for
'.he i i,' wk oi such m*te-
THE OANIELSVILLE MONITOR. DA NIELS VILLE. QEQAQIA
rial things as store and cement must
we build through our mountains the
kiyi.ways leuaing to the goal of ou,
•primal de-tue- —fvl’S’iousv education
for all.
the dignity and responsibil
ity OF CHURCH MEMBERSHIP
Sj’ W. P. Brook* Jr., Comer, f,i.
Part ll.—<llespon ibiliiy.
*Ye carried the iir:-l tart of this s>
tide in last week’s issue and if you
di'd not read it you should refer to
your last week’s paper and rim 1 it
a.- it will be worth your time.)
Yet Church membership j s r.o
simply a position of honor and <i g
niiy, hut also of great responsibil: y
Yes. individual responsibility. Some
times I fear that we forget this sol
emn truth. We stand all too ready
to allow the deacons, the pastor, ami
perhaps a handfull of intereste i
members to bear the full load and
consider that our personal member
ship in the Church is only a matter
of having our namin', on the Church
book. Would that we mighi come
to a full appreciation of the respon
siVd/.v of our individual relation to
the Church.
But where are a great number "iff
our ( burch r.iembers at the houi- c-f
worship, to aav nothing of the Su I '-
d:.-y school and other so-vices? Do
they not feel even the resuon ib 1 : y
of Church attendance? Do they not
>. o’ /'e that their p. esenco at th .-
( liurch -f'ervic-cs is, c:.;h,” e i off e n
a an obligation they should fulfill?
Asa sacred duty at: well as a p~:vi
ie Jge ?
That the f ? a ra ; pomsibili'y o"
at hast Church atieudanee? Ha.e
they ever stopped to consider C e
words of the writer of the letter of
Hebrews when he said in Ileh. 10.
25, “Not forsaking the assembling
of yourselves together, as the custom
of some is.’’ And yet how many o’ our
membership laze away fhe'r time at
iijrr.c in idle ease v.lcn they.shoul'l
bo at te Hcu -o ••!' iho . etc-,, and thus
hy their live- ‘v.i.-dig s-n
of indiffeence toward spiritta} Piing--.
Now certainly ev.r reli.io;i i . not s':,:-
plv a theory that brings rm to o .ir
Church service.-:, and then lets us
drift the rest of tbe week. But .at
tendance at the *o vice.; of the Church
Js- to he expected of every devout
and faithful follower cf t : 'c Master.
It is the least after all that wc can
and go to the Church a', the ap
pointed hour? of worship, and yet
how many are failing in this respect
today. There are many excuse, 0~-
f-ered of course for thi.; failure.
Sometimes they don't like tin preach
er—forgetting that it is rot loya'-
ty to a preacher that is asked, h-1
that, fundamentally ita ip:e-.tion of
their loyalty to tic Church and to
the cause of Christ. Sometimes
they they get a little
angry when they can’t have <b*>
own way, am! they soi-irfirne;, ~uit.
their Church attendance bcea s
they do not relish seme of the other
members—havt you ever heard c-f
anything like that?
I My friend/, it ? . rot a maker ? >
; much of personal tsslis; it is a rn-t
--; ter of personal loyalty to uomet’-rug
bigger and m.ii.Vr than a personal
whim or fancy. Wherever you he r
!of a person quitting the Church or
any of its establir-died o*ganizat?or
just simply because of some 1 tt'e
thing that doesn't strike hi■ fancy
• or suit big personal whim —iu.i put
; it down that their loyalty and
faith is subordinated to a sense of
prejudice or because o’ some person
al whim or bennu -e the task demands
some little effort on his nurd: tha; be
is not willing to put forth fyr ti e
sake of the Master. Sometime: the
Church members drift away from the
Church service because they are no*
made interesting and entertaining:
enough for them. May Cod have
mercy un the Church member who
has so little a conception of the pur
po e of the Church tha: he wants b "
Church turned r to a uiuce of enter
tainment or who goes simply ouj o'
a mere curiosi •.*. God help us to
go prompted by a sincere de-ire to
wors'.’ip God and bv a ‘sense of our
personal need and by a h pe that w*
can liv our presence arid effort help
in the great cr.u-e of the Kingdom
of God. If the Gospel cf Chr'r.t
• rc--.-bd it ' v'.. i.y <’ .. uc
! stj ’Ke a responsive note in our
carts we need to pray that o *
hearts and minds may l>? searche
y the Spirit of God and that v.e may
ic lifted to higher plain's of Cbris
iau living* and spiritual rnpre i.i
io* But a g* tat numlev, alas,
avt s-mnlv drifted into careless
habits of indifference —they need to
be aroused to a sense of tfceiv duty
and responsibility.
And just here in passing may it be
said that v:e need a deeper spirit o
reverence in our Church servi is.
Wt: are prone to make of them op.
portunities simply for gossip ano
conversation. This does not apply
simply to the young but, alas t
many of our older people, some o
whom haven’t even enough rvver
ence to bow the head and clore ike
eyes while prayer is being mu e.
And while the Scripture is 1> iny
read or the sermon i s being preae’ e
they snatch an opportunity for un
necesrary conversation by whirl: at
tention is distracted and God is di
j "honored, and then expect tho e who
are younger to have respect and rev
erencc for God’s house aul tl (
j Chinch servicf.s—it can’t be dine.
But there i anoLkei re-ponsibikij
\we hear from th ■ far 1 of our Ch vc
; nH:.nbo..f in, and via;, is ;. re p. n i
: Dlitv to help 1 ear tho financial pa t
cf the Church prog am. Now it i
really an opportunity that we are af
forded of giving our means to ti e
cause of Christ, and yet many of is
have never yet understood that it is
•it ti r. responsibility. Our iron. y
represents ourselve j. Many of u?
can not go to the foreign field?-, lot
our money can. I. can be take
and transmuted into a living voice
on the far Hung battle line that te’ls
the story of God’s love to tho, t* who
have never heard it be!ore. Many of
vs can not give ail cf our time to the
Lord's vror* here in the -home lard
in our own eommuni y but wo ca"
dedicate a prod of onr me'* y t-~ 'li
task. V.'c net and to under ta’id tba’
it i> a mean:; of wo ship and that a
-•roporticnatc part of our money' 1?
to be dedicated to the r-crvice of
Go i. And ' in so rmirv of our
j Churches a mere handfull has to
hear tbe entire expense of the lucid
Church work and give all Cat i- co ■-
triluted to He c&u-ue of tnisri ts.
And here again of course we I.a* e
bur excuses, and grumble a r.l com
c;!ain inslead cf appro'-iating- the
fact that the'matter of giving is •<*
matter between nr and G and and ti a’
it is a sacred priviJedge as wtll a* p
personal reuponsibiiily, Let him who
gives be prompted by tho motives < f
love and gratitude and realize that
ht has rendered a so - r'c to God. ! e
the gift great or small. W* all ar
preciato that old hymn.
“Take mv life ar.d let it Vo
Consecrated Lord to Thee;
Take my hands and let. them nov*.
At the impulfie of Thy levy.
“Take ir.y feet and let them he
Swift aid beautiful for Thm .
Take my voice and lot me Crg
Always only for my King.”
Bu- hew aboiit the third stanza ■an
we really sing it f*'m our hearts:
“Take my silver and my gold.
Not a mile would I with-hold.”
May God help us to realize tha* v.o
are te /'a.-Is. that ail we have re
ally belongs to God, ana rr.y we le
fclize that it is ala dder of personal
responsibility to contribute to His
work arc] Ills ciausof.
But there is ant VI er great resaon
sib.l: y upon ii<c- Churci. m;.m
ht; *, —a responsibility oftentimes that
vu* are prcr.c to forget—-tne rt.,.on
sibifty of living a ccr.sicrated.
Chrii-tlikc ii.V. V>* may be t.v.v so
faithful in Church attendance r, id
may be libera! in our support of its
pp.vrte, and yef do the iau.it- untold
harm by a cortices, worldV or r.inf’ul
life. tV e are exhorted to walk worth
ily as becometh savi and men and wo
men. Ant! he who does not live hia
religion, matters not what his Church
lideity may he in other matter::, is a
hindrance to the catr-e. And by
j his own lift ear- he‘p to give the eti
ernie- o f f.rn- CJ ui'.'h .-itt <.!■•;.: ion <jf
| ridicu’ ■ and blasphemy.
| In the first plat- Cbri * . ci.- it
iof u- to ,:Vc a ’/Ciits rodeo Tied men
; :ird women, as become.: Ihi-; rep. e.
j r-ptativ'M here in the world. And
! y*:t how often He must h-< pain ■>] ty
the manner <<f r life, when we
bring shame aiv ? di.tgrac* upon liii
cause and His Church. He e-. eats
! 'tat tvs, shall te 4 ,^. v u* ..i oM . *-
'deals and noble life.
In ti e next place the world its-if
expects of the Church rr.c nter t. nt
he I'v-y Tin to his ncofession . And
for the mot part tho world ha* :i
great deal mere respect for th*
Church member who is true to his
convictions and has but Utile u:o for
the pretentious stand made by a hyp
ocritical member of some Church
who;* life is a fiat denial of Ids pro
fession. In fact the world at times
seems all too ready to find fault with
thi' Church, to criticize its members
and belittle its work. May we see t j
it that it will not have an ocaash.ii
for a just criticism became of thn
manner of our life.
Church membership is no small
matter, —it should be a com era o '
greatest importance and deep appre
ciation to every member. \Vc need,
to appreciate more fully that it is
a position of dignity and honor, that
we are accorded the privilege of be
ing a member of the one organiz. -
tion that stands out pre-eminently
for the salvation of the lost and th _•
uplift of mankind. And as we ap
preciate the honor may vee not fo. -
get the responsibility ;ha : ; comes t<>
us as individual members of the
Church, —whether in the pulpit or
in the pew, —whether officer or sim
ply a member, —may we realize that
tho Church is God’s, that it stands
for l I*ll ’.at Christ was and did, and
hat it reeks to extend, by its ef
fort;, undo;- the guidance of the Holy
Spirit and in Ike power < f God. the
Kingdom of God among men-the
nile of C i in th-j hearts of man
kind .
NEWTOWN
We ore having some fine weather
it preseurt.
M •. a:;:! JBft. Clemona were spend
the day guesta of Mr. and Mrs. J.
H. Carrouth Sundry.
Mi * Lucid: Andeison r.pcnl Mon
day nip;’'it with her aunt, Mv„. H. C.
Moon.
Mr. and iVTr.-. QuHen Ci.rout.t
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs, H.
O. Carouth.
Several from here attennded the
funeral of Mr. Mike Wilson at Oak
Grove Monday.
Master Busier Harry and I.itt’e
Margaret Brown visited their gland
parents, Mr. and Mrs, VV . P. Brown
Saturday night.
Mr. Hoyt Nash returned to his
borne in Brooklyn, Ga., Saturday af
ter several weeks’ stay with Mr. and
Mrs,. .!. 11. Carouth.
Mr. Harris Drown is visiting in
our community this week. We are
always, glad to have him with us.
Mr. Smith and Mcrri* Thompson
from Greenwood. S. C. spent the
week end with .Mr. Brady Smith.
Mr-. Clara Adnms nnd children
lnt Saturday night with her broth
er, Mr. Henry Carouth near Vine
yard Crock.
We are glad to say the baby of
Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt Nash is -til Un
\ proving.
A k M;ks EulaJia Brown how she
enjoyed tie mus;:” Saturday night.
Mr. W. li. Hill and A. 11. flj*
were in Newtown Monday on business
Master Abson and his .‘lister, Reha,
Brown were visiting their grandmoth
er, Mrs:. J. L. Moon, Saturday uni
Sunday.
Alhens Busings College
Bookkeeper, iloilhid s i.d
type writing.
Save 50 per ccut 0 f expenses
bv attendir# t].j* <rj fC i
Graduates of the Atoer.s Bui
ness College always jr et the
best position. Every tfiaduate
employed Write for informa
tion to-day.
Athens, Ga.