39. rrite ters ap. eath low i Thursday, May 11, 1939. THE SOWER A Weekly Department of Religious and Secular Thought Contributed by REV. JAMES A. TURNER, Pastor, M. E. Church, Patton, Pa. SOME REASONS WHY. It is interesting to know what intel- ligent, cultured, young thinking and saying, today, are giving our column this week, to! a statement that a representative of { the better element of the youth of! the land made recently at a conven- | tion of Young People at New West- | minstre, British Columbia, on Sep- tember 20, 1938. This statement is by | Warrena Oliver, member of Williscroft ' “Y”, Ladner, Canada, and is as fol-! lows: Tonight I should like to tell you why I, and a host of other young peo- | ple ,intend to steer clear of alcohol. As a young person, I want a good ! time, and so far I've managed to have a perfectly marvelous time without alcohol for a companion. It seems to | ne that the prospect of a hangover | the next day would be a mighty wet blanket at any gay party. I don’t want, nor do I intend, tc have to pay for my fun with two days of alkalizing—or whatever it is that clears one’s head after a drinking party. I haven't the time. I'd be missing a lot of other good | times, and wasting time that might be ! put to profitable use. i I have heard people say that they | just couldn't have a good time with- | | | | | people are and so we out a little liquor in the punch to liven up the party. Personally, if I were to find myself so bored with life and with my friends that I had to supply artificial pep to make a suc- cess of my parties, I'd call myself a most inadequate hostess, and take a course on entertaining, to learn a few new games and stunts. (That's a GOOD one, girlie, and well put! Per- haps the reason some people guzzle liquor to have a good time is because they have no wits when they are so- ber.).. They say that a little alcohol makes a group of people more companion- able, more at ease; mostly the guests will talk more than they mean to and tell more than they should, but nobody is really listening anyway. A very pleasant inspiring evening would be had by all, I suppose! Be that as it may, it’s not my idea of a good time. (Nor is it the idea of anyone else who believes that you can have a good time without descending to alcoholic drooling.) NEW Tv Poristie 2% P EW RITERS iL | _ Official Remington-Rand Portable Agency Account Books, Ledger sheets, All-Facts Busi- ness Record Bks, Loose-Leaf Outfits, Dupli- cator Needs, Calendars, Advertising Novelties Stapling Machines & Staples for All machines Typewriter Ribbons 30c Salesbooks 6 for 25¢ Typewriter & Adding Machine Service Agency EAGLE PRINTING CO., Barneshoro | 1939 Wall Paper Sample Book! Contains 60 Different Papers priced from 5c to 25¢ per Single Roll WRITE FOR YOUR FREE BOOK TODAY! We pay the postage on all orders. 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But every time I p up a newspaper, a zine, or a 1 ern novel, I find dissipated, dissolute, mag references to the degenerate youth of your land. I don't like to be classed in any such category and I know a hunared fel- lows who feel the same way.” Thinking young people have too much respect for themselves to risk being classed in any such category. In these days when keeping well, and physically fit is so strongly emphasiz- ed in our schools ,a word to the wise is sufficient to keep young people from poisoning their systems with al- cohol. Aside from the great harm that this poison is known to do to our bod- ies, how much self respect could I pos- time I looked in the tipsy, sess, if every mirror, I saw a drunkard: myself, and so, 1 want to be fit for myself to know. I want to be able ,as days go by, Always to look myself str in the eye. 1 don’t want to stand with the setting sun, And hate myself for the things I've done.” i And, too, I want the respect of oth- | he good opinion of others imporiance to a want to be re- er people . paramount young person. We | spected. They say that young people on the whole are very conservative; that its the older folk who don’t give two hoots of what others think of them! We young people, just ventur- ing on the road of adulthood, find there's a lot to learn, and “caution” is an admirable byword. We have our house of life to build, and we want all the world to see a goodly house in the making. Young people as well as old have an effect on others. We may be going along pretty smoothly, when sudden- that we are influencing a shock at first, es- pecially for of us who work with younger children, to find that no matter what we say, it's what we do that teaches, or unteaches, the lesson As the other lives. we are trying to drive home. L. T. L’s say in their song: 1 ng isn’t teaching, h what you do.” “Simply Folks wat This summer it y privilege to be a leader of 13-year-old girls at C. G. I. T. Camp. For ten days I ate, worked, and played with about a dozen of these impressionable girld During several meals I noticed that one girl seemed to have trouble handling her knife and fork. It turned out that she had always manipulated her fork with her left hand; but because she saw me using my right hand, she felt that she must do likewise. We are watched, at such a camp, every minute of the day ,and how we want to be the very best influence for those girls. How could I, then, be an example to other young pcople, if I indulged in was I alcoholic bever: you. It nmer when Mrs. imber of you are some- /illiams preser us. Believe it boay’s he tter who you are, someone think ure mighty fine. You are looked up to as a pattern to follow. In >t, you're on a pedestal. I said at the beginning, that as a young person, I want a good time. To this I shall add ,that as a Christian young person nt the right kind of a good can truthfully say that in the c ch I have had my best times, and have found my best friends. What are my lower of Chr ment of Jesu obligations as a fol- The great Command- 1ou shalt love the all thy heart, and . and thy nei- Inca to zl 10 place to al- red for the ied. r whatever of God.” “Whether ye to God. | e Holy! principle: | I have never been in a sal- | i oon in my life. Honestly, I an so in- baseball | bleary-ejy 2a i | whole self, | ye do, do al Paul id no ill to | his nei re lesis by, which I the use of drink and lor busi- ness may be decided. Can they be re- tained * he glory of God!” Do they “work ill” to our neighbor? persona In these days when innumerable signboards tell us to buy cigarettes | to aid digestion, and when newspaper advertisements reveal to us the am- azing fact that liquor steadies our nerves, we are hopelessly bewildered unless we have the mental and physi- cal power to reason through this ques- tion of Temperance. Sir Walter Scott once wrote, “When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has a good reason for letting it alone.” How great a value do we place up- on these God-given lives of ours! Rich precious blood was shed upon a cross that we might have them. Are we, then, to fritter them away, drinking cocktails? 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