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* vv?r |||)e f|eral& unD Jems. Xitare^ at the Postoffice at NewSrry, S. C., as 2nd class matter. E. H. AULL, EDITOR. , - Friday, August ^12, 1921. ? The killing that taxi driver by those three men over in Lexington county a few days ago is one of the most revolting and horrible crimes in the annals of crime. Any man to be guilty of such a revolting crime must have lost all the human instincts and impulses, not to speak of the higher impulses which we should attain in this day of Christian civilization. We do not recall that we have ever read a more terrible manifestation of the brute and the barbarian even in ?he history of the dark ages and the days of persecution than this one, and it would be hard to imagine a crinii mere terrible and revolting. There is a growing sentiment in this section of a better and more optimistic feeling. A good many farmers have concluded that the boll weevil is not going to be as bad as they first feared, and even if it is bad, as it no dou'bt is, they have reached the proper conclusion that there can be no good in whining about it, but the right thing to do is to go along and do the best you can and keep on working, and there will be no time to whine or to chink about whining and complaining. We must make up our minds to maKe the best of conditions and do our duty it prejen^s itself and let tne consequences take care of themselves. BP ** <$> <? <$> $ <?> & <$> <S> <S> <$> <$. $> <?> v AMONG THE SCHOOLS <?> <v ^ 4> <S> <?> <?> <$> ^ *> <0* & ? ^ I have not had anything in this column for several issues though thine is something doing all the time amor.g the schools. It seems to me that there is more during the vacation than there was when the schools were in session, and it is w^ll not to let the *rhnrd snirit eo to sleep, but t;> keep the interest going all the time - because where there is no interest and no enthusiasm there can be but little doing. , I K ./ I At this time I want to say to the trustees that the county board met the other day and the one trustee in i district was aLDoirfted and no tice and blank oath will be sent just as soon as I can get the time. I have been busy along with oiher matters, getting the annual report to the state superintendent but it is now finished *nd will go to him on Friday. (L ' Another thing I would like to say to the trustees is that the blanks for the-making of school census require.!, and now placed upon the trustee \ will be sent just as soon as I can get them from the printer, and *they are promised this week ar.J then the trustees will please have the cards filled out and send them to the superintendent. * Another matter which some may not know is tlie law m reference t?> to the tax on dogs. I am going to quote the law in full and I would bj pleased to have the U us tees take n?te f. of it and see that the owners of ail /3/varc eociirp t?ar<?. or at least DHY ------ 0~, -- ? * the tax required, and aiso that al! dogs are reported. You will observe that the tax from this source goinj; to the school fund of t-ie c.lstr'.ct is just double what it was before. And tere is no property Ijlx required ct the dcg as I understand the law. ^ That from and after the passage of this a-'t there shall be levied on all dogs, six months oil or older, in the i ale of South Carolina,/ an annual tax of one doliar and twenty-five cents ($1.25) per head. .That upon the payment of said ar nual tax of one dollar ana uveniv* five cents ($1.25) by the owner of any dog in the state, the county treasurer shall issue to the said owner a receipt therefor, and a metal ta ? marked "Dog Tax" and the year for wliich it is iszued. Each county treasurer shall keep a numerical record of every dog taxed, and. in ad lition thereto, furnish to the owr.er of * V"% T* ?% > V* AV? .1 vwn A/1 '\?1 o CctC'II UUy, &UIU HUIIIUCL C CUKIjJ^U uu .1 metal tag. Which tax shall bo levie.l and paid to the county treasurer as other taxes are paid: Provided, further, That this tax shall be exclusive of all other license taxes, either municipal or otherwise: Provided, That all such taxes collected hereunder shall be credited to the schools of the school district from which it is collected to be used in support of the schools of the dstrict: Provided, further, That said tax shall become due and payable at the same time state and county taxes become due and i payable. That every owner of a dog shall be I required to collar and place the aforej said dog- tax upon the said collar, i Except when such dog shall be used for the purpose of hunting, when | such dog shall be upon a chase or 1 kn?^f j 11 It 111. Any person owning, harboring or maintaining a dog, failr.g or refusing to return and pay the tax aforesaid, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, i shall be fined not less than five !$o.00) dollars, nor more than twenty | ($20.00) dollars, one half of which i shall go to the person reporting said failure to pay said tax, and one-half to the public school fund in which said derelict occurs. i That each county treasurer shall be allowed to retain twenty-five cents of the said tax, to reimburse h^m for .furnishing said tags and keeping the , record, as required under the provisions of this act. j i This act shall go into effect on Januarv 21, 1921. i Approved the 10th day of March, JA. D. 1920. E. H. A. I 1 - , THF. FAULT WAS OURS, WE ARE SENDING PAPER ; Wilmington, Del., Aug. C, 1921. Mr. E. H. Aull, Editor, My Dear Sir: I'm in a bad humor today, and I was'just ruminating in my mind whether I r.hould go down town and blow up oar postoffiee for not delivering my paper of last Tuesday, the 2nd,. but when my son came home about noon today and delivered Friday's paper, and I had read in it the reason for the non-delivery of Tuesday's paper, our postoffiee was saved; ; or, at least, some'body in it was saved from a blowing up. You have no idea how 'much I nissed that paper or you surely would have sent me a copy, even if sojne of your town subscribers had to be disappointed. Now, don't let that shortage of paper occur again, for every Wednesday and Saturday I'm on pins and needles until I get that paper. 1 don't care so much about the news from New Mexico, Arizona and Arkansas; nor Idaho, Wisconsin or Ok-j la'homa, but I want the news from! old rsiewnerry ana tae country ruunu about. I want to know what all the | girls are doing down there. I'm on-| ly 74 years old and there's no Celling | but what I might want to call on some one of them some time. Send me a copy of last Tuesday's paper and believe me to be Yours truly, Y. I. Hutchinson. ??* ?- 1 ' ? The fault in this case was ours and! can not be laid to the postofiice. It1 was the issue when we ran short a J few papers and a good many sal>-! scribers failed to receive that paper.' We are sorry for we know just how the subscribers felt about it and just, how they missed the good old paper. We can lay a good many faults to the delivery but when the fault is' with us wc frankly admit it. We hope to avoid any such slip in the future but in these times it is impossible to even forecast with any sort of probability what will happen. We are sending Mr. Hutchinson a copy of the mining paper and we hope he will enjoy it even though late, and it will at leas- iu tvccp mc lintnu ?< from the good old county of Newberry un'broken. x ^ Critical Review To those who have not had the opportunity of seeing Leo Ditrichstein i.i "The Concert"?and to those who have?a treat is afforded in the film veision produced by Goldwyn, which will be shown at the opera house Mon' TVi/i lilt mitilp hv thp rilav on WUJf I JI\- 41 * ^ ***** v ?j X' C ?-the legitimate stage promises to be duplicated ort the s^een, for in every respect it is a remarkable entertainment. ' The Concert" is the story of a temperamental middle-aged music master and the impressionable young wife- cf a physician who together take a shy at "soul mating" under the chaperonage of wife and husband, respectively. The main point brought out by the story of the play is this; fhnt enmp of ns oerhaus would like. to take other wives, or other husbands, but few of us would like others to take our husbands or our wives and that a fair exchange would be terrible robbery. The humorous situations of which Mr. Ditrichstein made so much are carried out with splendid emphasis in th<i screen version. The cast selected to interpret the play is well proportioned, and the acting uniformly ex cellent. A surprising: innovation is introduced to convey to the screen the impressions that are created by the piano playing of a genius?that is, the audience is made actually to "see" music which it cannot hear. This is done by the use of double exposures. To break a cold take 626.?Adv. ["LORD, REVIVE THY WORK" rj AND "ON WITH THE DANCE" ' i j( The Gaffney Ledger. ij j Below is the sermon preached by j j j Dr. R. C. Granberry, pastor of the \ ! First Baptist church, last Sunday; \ I morning: jr Published by request of board of; \ : . j deacons. ; s "Conflicting Voices" Habakkuk 3:2, "Lord revive Thy; s ! work." j; ! Habakkuk lived about 2,500 years1 s i ago. There are only 56 verses in the , < ; book of three chapters that bears his {-] ! name. Of the prophet Habakkuk : ' nothing is known save that record-1 r | ! 1 ! ed in this book. We see in this brief;., 'treatise, however, that he was more I s ! concerned in righteousness and char-!(j acter and spirituality than any thing | else in the world. Habakkuk certain- (j lly thought of God in the highest,j terms of spiritualitv. i ! Habakkuk fell on a day that tried; the souls of men. In the very begin-1 j ning of his book he speaks of "be-1^ | holding iniquity and grievances."; f ? uri _ I l Me also says mat "spoiling ana viu-jc lenee are in the land, and they that' , * t ? rai?e up strife and contention. There- ^ I fore the law is slacked, and judgment: 'doth never go forth; for the wicked? } doth compass about the righteous;'" f therefore wrong judgments proceed-' eth." ' |j Habakkuk, then, lived in a day i i when iniquity waxed hot. It was a ^ j trying day; but he fronted it. and ^ f-Vio inrl crm tint<5 n'f ( nnnil ! I UCLiaitU L11V. JU u^iii v * . v - ? ~~ r , f) I I j violence and lawlessness in Israel. j ^ It was ifi such a day as described ' j that Hatakkuk prayer; and tftis was1 ^ ihis prayer: i i I c ! !e : "0 Lord, revive Thy work in the ; ^ midst of the years; t In the midst of the years make' i known; !j, In wrath remember mercy." On With the Dance j It was more than 100 years ago,' f j I in the city of Brussels, on the eve of ? i i | the battle of Waterloo, that soldiers; j and citizens assembled in revelry. | The hour was one of imminent peril,! j. jyet they danced. Byron describes t | the scene as follows: js it "Did ye not hear it? No, 'twas but t the wind, ' i _ ' i a |Orthecai rattles over the stony, | street; jf On with the dance! Let joy be un-' confined: L i 11 No sleep till morn when youth and 3 beauty meet I _ To chase the glowing hours with flying ^ feet. j. But hark! The heavy sound breaks ^ in once more j ^ As if the clouds its echoes would re-' peat; j And nearer, clearer, deadlier than be-' ? ! fore? ? iJ Arm! Arm! It is?it is-?the can- i, non's opening roar." ^ ' . s The city of Moscow was burned in September, 1S12. A dance was in' progress in the Kremlin palace. When the warning came that t the flames ^ were approaching the palace, a deathlike stillness fell over the revelry, j Then the voice of a young man was (j heard, shouting: "One more dance in defiance of the flames." The revelry ? i i went on, but ended horribly a few Q i moments later when a spark reached li j explosives stored at the palace, an J j. 'underneath the ballroom. ! j Typical Voices 1 ^ These two expressions are typical of life today. These cries are anti- ^ podal, and conflicting. One .of these 0 voices says, "Lord, revive Thy iX work." The other says: "On with the dance." ' + 11 "0 Lord, revive Thy work"?such ? is the prayer that is made by every jv faithful, intelligent servant of God as s he kneels by the side of Habakkuk,! | the prophet. He makes this prayer ! because he knows that stability, safe- t ? r 1 jf ] ty, and salistaction 01 soui is xounu | in God alone. j J, "On with the dance." This voice v represents those disintegrating fore- ( b ! es, who know not God, and whose t 'minds are set on pleasure, heeding g : neither the warnings of eternity nor the conditions of "the present. "On f with the dance"?that is the voice of t carelesss indifference, of irreverence, p or of infidelity. "One more dance in tl defiance of the flames"?such is the \ cry of all those who are plunging on, b doing the things they want to do, L; regardless of the claims of the church b of God, and of Jesus Christ, the Head of the Church. jy I I Moral Decadence ! t! I "On with the dance," I say, is ex- 1< pressive of many phases of life today, f There are certainly tendencies in modern life that give us serious con- y eern. A poison has been injected in- d to the life of organized society, and " we are seeing some of the effects thereof; and yet, there are more ef- p fects than are seen. You may know d some of the situations that are grave, t but you do not know all of the moral a decadence that exists. p j That man who values modesty, y purity, morality, law and order, finds T I t difficult to be happy when he gets nto the secret of things. Ilabakkuk's lay is up to date! Xo one wants to be jessimistic or Puritanical; but hear ne when I say in all calmness that ,Tou must light now-a-days for your ery soul, else "the siren music of laked sea nymphs" will dope to sleep ;our decent instincts. Habakkuk, I ay, is brought up to date! The treaties of peace have been iorm/l Knf wp nvp still in the furv of t all. Forces of right and wrong are till locked in a deadly embrace. 'Godliness is brazen and blatant." ( There were explosives, destructive' xplosives, stored beneath the balloom of the Kremlin palace; and in nd through and beneath organized, ociety there are explosives just as leadly. And yet, men, women and , hildren are crying, "On with the lance." And again, "One more dance n defiance of the flames." Who Is Shocked? There is nothing more patent when ;e stop and analyze the situation than hat we have become a changed peo?le in the last half dozen years. Many, if us do not see these tilings until' ve stop and consider the matter.: Ve have ceased ta regard too many ; if the time-honored and the Godiven safeguards to our home, and to ur individual hearts. Yoil think) bout it; who is shocked now-a-days?j lodesty, delicacy, and spiritual reinement a'.e on a low level. People, leely discuss matters that would lave seriously reflected on respect-, bility and good breeding in past rears. And nobody thinks anything bout it! There are intimate, person:1 and sacred things as freely dis-; ussed now-a-days as the hiring of a; ook, or the planting of corn or cot-; on. | It is all a symptom of the age? of j n age when "On with the dance" is( argely expressive. Nor is this symp-' om seen in men more than in women, i i tor in the young folks more than in! he adults.' It is -simpLy a matter of) 'everybody's doing it." I ask you again, who is shocked1 low-a-days? There has been a ireaking dcwn of the finer sensibiliies as sure as you live. It is a sad ituation! And unless there is a >reak put on this downward drift, errible tragedies await us; they are s inevitable as that the sun shines. . And you need not think that your amily will be spared. No man or voman, young or old, can trifle with he laws of God and character. Charcter is a growth; it needs soil and tmcsphere in which to come into ruitage. My people, the atmosphere 5 bad today! v Too many of those iner sensibilities have slipped away rom us. . . Sex Famiiarity The familiarity between the sexes oday is one of the evidences that lodesty,' and the God ordained relations between men and women, are oo latg^ly marred, and defied: I am ure that many of us have not really ! 1 1 il. * Ll \T onszuerea uns mauer. 1 ou see, uie ery atmosphere lias been poisoned! ^here are others who know of the langers of such familiarity, but they re like the young man in the Kremn palace, and they cry, "One more lar.ee in defiance of the flames." | There is a growing freedom in the elation of the sexes toward each ther. This familiarity is increasing at an alarming rate. There are ait a few topics tabooed today. The rapery is torn away from everything, j lost of our people do Tiot seem to ealize this situation, and feel no re- i i lound therefrom; and in just that is een the gravest danger of all. They j re caught in the maelstrom of modrn life. The miasma has come upon j U Aw n / ! v?i i T10 ' 21 v j 11 j emu uic) aic ui uggeiu it i^| On with the dance!" God quicken our hearts and con-' ciencesf "0 Lord, revive Thy work." Social Relations of Young People As I consider the social relations hat exist among our young people i wonder whither are we drifting. I ove young people; it. has not been ery long since I was one of them. I' 'elieve in fun; in socials; in associa-i ion between and among boys and! iris. But there is certainly a growing reedom and an increasing familiary in the social life of our young peole that broods ill. I do not blame hem; the home is largely to blame. Ve may say, "They ought to know etter." Well, maybe they ought!; Jut let us place the blame where it: elongs first,?at the door of parents. Of this I am sure, however; if our j oung people realized how some, hings look, and whither some things ?ad, they would studiously avoid reedom and familiarity. In this growing familiarty .between oung men and young women is evi. .1 enced another sign of that spirit, On with the dance." There cannot be that beautiful and riceless modesty when there is freeom and familiarity. There was a ime when young men were "kept at distance." That day is too largely assed. The proper place for a oung man's hands are at his side. hey ought to be kept there! One of life's beautiful things is the fellowship between young men anti young women. When delicacy, modesty. reticence, characterize that relation, it has upon it the radiance of heaven. But familiarity stabs the heart of that glory and erases that radiance. The Modern Dance What shall be said of the modern dance? Some of you dance; ethers of you attend dances as spectators; while all of us have either seen something of the dances of this day, U"tT/\ U /In n/wi /lnPrtvl K/i/1 UI Ilitvc ncai u tiic uaiat uc^ci No man wants to be a fanatic on anything, certainly not if he is at all balanced in judgment. I am sure 1 do not! I also believe in the inalienable Christian right of private judgment. But the modern dance is positively indecent. Even secular magazines and commercial periodicals condemn it. The "old-fashioned" dance is passing, or has passed; it certainly has passed in many circles. The modern dance is disgustingly suggestive. The dance has always been regarded as a "questionable amusement" by the Church' of God. If this has been so in the ages past how should it be regard eel today? Instead of throwing the light OFF tiie dance, the light should be THROWN ON! Only a few weeks ago the mothers of Atlanta were called to meet for the sole purpose of considering the evils attending the modern dance. The Atlanta Journal, in commenting on the meeting, said editorially: "We are glad that at last some mothers have been aroused to a consideration of the terrible evils in the modern dance. The modern dance is indecent and undermines that refinement of feeling in our young people, without which all will be lost." In Ashevlle dances have been forbidden, and a public dance cannot be held in that city. I can present to you admass of ma terial, gathered from every section of the country, with countless testimonies of women who have danced that the History of dancing has .been constantly and horribly evil, i How shall we save our young people from the miasma of the modern dance? It is filled with malarial poison; it is a deadly menace; it exudes polluting exhalations; it is destructive of the finer sensibilities, and is accompanied by distressing dangers. The modern dance is just as dangerous in Geffney as it is in the Latin Quarter of Pari^. in th? tenderloin of New York, and in Chicago. Here is one voice: "0 Lord, revive Thy work." And here is another, in direct contradiction to this tirst cry: "On with the dance!" Multitudes of men and women caught in the whirl of excessive gaiety, blind to the moral perils to wKch they are exposng themselves, and soc-^ty, are lierhtly and gayly cryin "One more dance in defiance of the flames." Which Voice Shall Prevail? Each of us faces the question as a 1 u ~ 11 personal one, w men voice snan pievail? " Our only hope is in God. No league or association of nations will avail anything, unless the hearts of men have been touched by the hand of God. Neither i3' there personal safety for you and for me and for our families, unless this shall be so. God is our hope, our refuge, our strength. Shall we not importunately supplicate: "O Lord, revive Thy work in the midst of the years; In the midst of the years make JW1U ? 11 , In wrath remember mercy." On every hand there are evidences of broken commandments, of slightest virtue, and a despised God. The "wrath" of God can but make for distress of soul! But God is most merciful! He will hear our cry,?if we cry. In "wrath" He will "remember meucy." t ,-r . . 1 1 I . mi "Let tne people pray to inee. 0 God, let all the people pray to Thee. Then shall Thy mercy be revealed in the midst of the tumult, Thy work shall be revived, and we shall be saved." Afraid of Mamma "Papa," said Evelyn anxiously, "when you see a cow ain't you 'fraid?" "No, certainly not, Evelyn." "When you see a horse ain't you 'fraid?" "No, of course not." "When you see a dog, ain't you 'fraid?" "No!"?with emphasis. "When you see a wasp, ain't you 'fraid?" "No!"?with scorn. "Ain't you 'fraid when it thunders?" "No!" with loud laughter. "Oh, you silly, silly child!" "Papa," said Evelyn solemnly, "ain't you 'fraid of nothin' in the world but Mamma?" The married man with horse sense never slips his bridle. 1' And now the Russians art- sore b?;- ]? i cause Lenine has not fulfilled his j ^ campaign promises. Polities is the ;c' 'same the world over. !; i We don't care what you do to the 11 chao who comes in and asks, "Is it j i j hot enough fur you?" just so you do j 1 jit quickly. tm : ' | When a woman begins to die her j j ,hair she begins to suspect some other, woman's figure of being unnatural. I : ; i NOTICE TO ABUTTING PROPER-1 < TY OWNERS. Notice is hereby given to the abut- i ting property owners upon Main street between Vincent and Drayton | streets, in the Town of Newberry, S. i C., and Boyce street between the I present paving and Nanc.e street, that pursuant to the petition filed with j I the Town Council of said Town bv ; j two-thirds of said abutting property) | owners and an Ordinance of said j j Town providing for the permanent I improvement of said street, that the , assessment roll, showing the amount j (to be assessed against the particular j ipieces of property abutting on said i istreets, has been filed in the office I of the Clerk and Treasurer of the :said Town and the same will remain (there for one week from the date ef , the publication of this notice. Any | > gawMM? urn r aa i wan?w?im in a?i OPERA Today-Fri OTIS SI j IP 3 performances oi 1; 3:00 P. M. sharp, price of admission i -i Hi i niifn ^ ~ a ii EVERY! CLAIM We do r.ot argue that ,ot] r: sent sound and honest compj do. 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After the expiration >f the period of one week from the publication of this notice said assessnent roll, together with such excepions or objections as may have 'been iled thereto, will be referred to the Fown Council for corrections and atification and such action as the rown Council may see fit to take. Published this i2th day of August, 1921. J. W. CHAPMAN, ,'lerk and Treasurer, Town of Newberry, S. C. S-lz-Zt BBBSUHaBBBBflBHttHIBBflBf ! Every Young Man Should bring his clothes to us I for pressing, cleaning and re- I pairing. ii We produce in every garment I the natural body shape. Our pressing method is a sani- I tary one. i I I L. I. 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