Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1922-02-21
TUESDAY. FEBRUARY q, 1922.

SCI, three -masted schooner. She
brought a cargo, of mahug any
logs from Africa and it took her
]21 days, three months, to make
the trip. This is like page from
the past. A modern steam freight
er would have made the trip in
One-tenth the time. Yet it is only
a few generations since the three.
masted schooners were the fastest
ships afloat. A few more genera
tlons and the captains of gigantic
freight and passenger sairplanes
will laugh at the few steamers
left upon the seas, survivors of
1922. 1t is the same i'm every
thing. Ten years from now the
world will look back amusedly
at the old Fashioned ways of 1922.
The Goth century is cutting the
shackles of time and space.
In the year 1000 the world had
60 million people who professed
the Christian religion. BY the
year 1900 the number had grown
to 200 million. Now the Christ
ian religion has 500 million fol-
lowers, covering more than IS
per cent Of the habitable globe.
In the last century Christianity
grew two and a half times more
than i'll the combined 1S preced.
ing centuries. In the last 20
years The number of Christians
has increased more than in any
20 years since the time of ChriSr.
The forces of religion are strong
el today than ever before and are
being strengthened every hour.
Josephus Daniels, former secre-
tary of the navy, told the North
Carolina Press association in an
address the other day that so
long as the Russians are starving
and German currency is selling
by the peck the world cannot get
back 10 normal. With these two
great countries in distress, he
said, the effects will be felt in
every quarter of the globe and by
every citizen of every country.
And he is right. The effect of
conditions in Russia and Germa-
NY are being felt today by the
humblest mechanic and the small
est farmer in the United States,
not TO mention men Of larger af-
fairs. 1t is good business policy
for us, if we are moved by no
higher motive, 10 do what we can
TO aid i'll the rehabilitation of
Europe.
Premier Brian of France re-
signed because he was "tired of
being shot at from behind" He
had a majority Of the people of
France and majority of the
Chamber OF Deputies with him,
but certain element had been
fighting him at every step, fight
ing him most unfairly, and Brian,
worn out and sick at heart, final.
ly resigned. There is nothing
. more cruel or more disheartening
than unjust criticism. 1t will sap.
the life and courage Of the strong
est man. There are times when
criticism is i'm order, but we should
be sure that "A man is dishonest or
is not doing his best before we
begin criticising him.
1t dOesn t matter whether You
are in favor of prohibition or
not, said a federal Judge the
other day. Prohibition is now
the law and you must decide
whether You are going to stand
for the enforcement of the law"
The Judge was right. The law,
whatever it is, must be enforced
ii we are to have decent govern
ment. Whenever We permit a
law to be openly and VIGOROUSLY
Violated, then our government is
failure. This is what Billy"
Sunday had i'm mind when he said
the bootleggers We're working
hand in hand with the anarchists
and the. /. w. w. for the over
throw of the government.
"A text in the Bible that is mis-
quoted perhaps more often than
any other is that relating to
money. Many people quote it.
Money is the root Of all evil"
The Bible doesn't say, anything
of the, kind. The quotation is,
"The love of money is the root of
all evil.f 1t is not the amount of
money man has that counts
against him. How he got his
money, and what he is doing with
IT, are the main considerations.
The love of money is the curse. A
mail may 60 wrong for a dollar
Ak quickly as for a thousand or a
million dollars. Some Of the stin-