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’Tmni-lsville monitor fl* c D b Ay.r., rM* _ _ ...... • < lass matter at the .t DanielsviUe c ;:: 0 ; r .- ,<-.°° c °“ m > -•y 1 . olf 'r : IS Ceirt*. Sis „, 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.