Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-11-14
ARMISTICE CELEBRATION
YOrkVille People Heard Thoughtful
Talks on Grave Problems.
WEATHER CURTAILED The ATTENDANCE

in courthouse-Speakers Say Need
for Christ and Christian Religion
Greater than Ever in History of
CiviIization-Warned That Hour
Calls for Fair and Fearless Dealing.
Pleas for deep thinking, closer CO.
operation, deeper reverence for Jesus
Christ and the Christian religion and
for honesty and fair dealing between
man and man was the keynote Of
addresses delivered by speakers at a
held in the courthouse here Tuesday
evening for the purpose Of celebrating
the first anniversary Of the signing Of
the armistice with Germany. There
We're possibly 100 citizens Of the town
present, attendance of a larger audi
ence having been prevented because of
the inclement weather of the evening.
Mayor l., w. Johnson presided, and in
a brief address directed attention to
the fact it was the first anniversary of
Germany, and time for words OF
praise and Thanksgiving. He said
that in his opinion the day should be
set aside as a national holiday and
THAI children in the schools and people
generally should be taught to believe
that it was one of the greatest days in
the history Of the world. The musical
programme of the evening included
the singing of America" Onward
Christian Soldier" Dixie" and t:e
Star Spangled Banner" Prayer was
offered by Rev. e. E. Gillespie, D. D.
The glst Of the argument Of the
several speakers of the evening was
that while the day was one that called
for Thanksgiving to God for the vic
tory over the enemy, because Of condi-
tions resulting from the late war the
present time is the most critical in the
history Of civilization and a greater
dependence upon Jesus Christ and the
Christian religion is needed now than
ever before.
Unrest Throughout World.
The unrest that now pervades not
only the United States but the world
is of the widest scope in history, said
Rev. ]. L. Oates, pastor of the York
willie A. r. T. church, the first speaker
OF the evening. 1t Is a time that
calls for careful handling of the many
problems Confronting the world-a
can Tor good citizens, call for en-
ployers who shall pay the laborer the
value of his hire-a call for laborers
who shall give their employers the
value of their wage, a call for more
men who shall pay their honest debts,
a call for more men and more women
who are honest in their duty to them
selI es, their fellow men and their
country.
Pays Tribute to Soldiers.
The speaker paid tribute to the men
who went to war at their countrys
call and spoke feelingly Of those who
made the supreme sacrifice. They an
swered the call as true Americans ever
answer and he said that although the
signing Of the armistice made clear the
way for the laying down of their arms,
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even as there was more work for every
man and woman not in uniform dur
ing the war but who nevertheless
labored for the victory to the full eX-
tent of his or her respective means,
and that the great war now on was be-
tween the forces Of Righteousness and
evil and the duty of every good Amer
lean was to enlist on the side OF right
eousness. 81 do not know whether 1t
Is Russian propaganda or German
propaganda that has entered this coun-
try and Is responsible for the great
social and industrial unrest" said the
speaker in conclusion, but / know that
il is here and it IS incumbent upon
y every true American to fight 1t to the
end"
Says Civilization at Stake.
TT. Mellow, Esq, the second speak
er of the evening, declared that the
problems of the present called for the
exercising of the greatest wisdom and
the best judgment in the land if the
United States government and the
present civilization of the country was
to endure. He deplored the fact that
the doctrine of Bolshevism and dis
regard of law and order as preached
by Lenine and Trotsky and others of
their like was stronger in Russia today
than it had been at any time in the
last two years and declared that re-
cent developments in this country had
proved conelusively that it was be-
ginning to make inroads into this
country. That doctrine which was be-
ing preached by the Russian Reds and
which had so torn Russia that the
lives and property of some 15O,0OO,OOO
or 175,OOO,OOO people in that vast
country was unsafe, included the
teaching that there was no God, that
the teachings of Jesus Christ and the
Christian religion, amounted to naught
and threatened to wreck the very
foundations of the worlds civiliza-
ton. He said that even non believers
in Cod had often declared that no
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